Updates Galore!

Ok, so I know I've been really bad about maintaining this blog here, and I really apologize for that. I suppose it's kind of a habit of mine that I tend to only have one focus at a time, and I throw all my resources and attention at that one thing until the next thing comes along. For June and July, it was the marathon training and newbie running program (and hence, this blog). In August, it was the NJ reception and trip to see my family. Then in Sept/Oct, the focus has been the new job... not that that's an excuse for my negligent posting, merely additional explanation.

In any case, as you all can see by my nifty little countdown timer in the side bar, I am running a marathon the day after tomorrow!! (1 day, 6 hours and counting...) As a result, it's kind of important to me to update you all on the last couple months of my training BEFORE the race, if only for my own sanity and remind myself of how far I've come and that I really AM ready (the jury's still out on that one).

Also, I've noticed that the only "interesting" posts tend to be after my increasingly long runs, which only happen every other week. Therefore, I'm going to post the remaining updates in two week chunks (also to save myself some time ;-) ).

So, here we go... ready?