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Day one ?!?!?!

11/25/2013

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So, after work today I planned on driving home and walking the dogs - Stella (below left) and Sherman (below right), that is.  Well, I had made a large, print-out of my marathon training schedule at work today and figured I would write the dates to correspond with the workouts on it.  Luckily, I did...because I found out that TODAY was the first day of my marathon training!

I had been chugging along since my last race on Labor Day weekend, thinking 'December 1st...December 1st.'  To figure out when I needed to start training for my marathon, I had counted out 19 weeks back from April 13, 2014 - the day of the London Marathon - and got December 1st.  I miscalculated.  December 1st is in Week 1...but it is the last day!  A la Rick Perry...oops.

Like I said, I caught it before I headed out of the house, so a "walk" with the dogs became my latest step in my marathon quest, i.e. a 40 minute run.  I ran one of my usual routes near my friend's house - I am dog-sitting for her.  It is a 2 mile loop that I ran twice and to which I added an extra little doohickey (see above).  Technically, it was 4.09 miles and I ran it in 43 minutes, but that's including a pit stop for Stella to take care of some paperwork, which I dutifully picked up (I do not like dog owners that do not clean up after their dog!).  I did make her carry it back to the house on her collar.  I have my limits.

Hopefully, someone is reading this and if you are, welcome!  This is where I track my training progress for the 2014 London Marathon.  I am 16% of the way to my fundraising goal after only five donations.  Those people rock!  Please keep checking back here for updates and if you are feeling generous, donate to rhino conservation.  I will hopefully have t-shirts available here soon.

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Dave Johnson
11/26/2013 10:16:27 pm

Good luck with the training. I know it's a daunting task while working at the zoo. I did this in 2010 and raised about ten thousand for rhino and elephant conservation in Nepal. We bought them anti-poaching motorbikes for Chitwan National Park. It's the only marathon I have ever ran. I have stuck with the half and 10k's very since. I clocked in at 3:59, so broke the four hour barrier I had established for myself, just barely. Hang in there, I know it's tough to work all day and then come home for a long run. Good luck to you and congrats on doing it for such a great cause.

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