First Few Days

Welp, you may have guessed it! We are doing a full marathon!! With 2 half marathons and many other races under our belt, we're going for The Big One! After all, how can you have a name like "Marathon Mama's" and not complete an actual marathon?? We've been discussing it for quite sometime, but it's official. We are running the Fort Worth marathon in February 2012.  We (me and Alison) are pumped! Haha, now it's just talking the others into it. :)

Marathon training is in the first few weeks!! We've already had our first sickness as Alison had a migraine and was unable to complete the first 3 mile run on Monday. She didn't miss much as it was very warm on Monday. High 80's for October is smoking hot especially when trying to run! We are seasoned runners so we decided to let Alison's first miss slide :)

Our first marathon training day for a run was individual, unfortunately.   Alison was laid up with a headache, JB ran with the Shelley's and I ran alone during the day. Lisa is still getting back into the running groove and is walking some but mostly running and she did 3 miles on her own. Mitzi is on medical leave to nurse that heel, MM's say she needs to rest and do nothing for at least a week. We have full confidence in her as she is the one who jumped in for our half marathon training with a 6 mile long run. She's awesome! Although JB and Mitzi have not officially committed to the marathon, Alison and I have full confidence that they can do it! And we keep telling them.... JB is training she just hasn't admitted it to herself yet :)

Second 3 mile training day was last night October 26th. JB, Alison and I ran our 3 miles at 9:15 pace. It was good and if it weren't for the dang train it would've been a faster finish. Never fails when you get in the groove and your stride is smooth, something happens. Guess that's something I need to work on personally. Getting that groove back even when there's a turn. Our first group marathon decision was that we need to now park at the Santa Fe building to beat those dang trains. Next run is today: October 27th. 3 miles again, Friday is rest day and Saturday is our first long run - 6 miles.

At this point we (at least Alison and I) are still excited about this new journey we will embark on!! Only 4 short months away and we will be running The Big One :)

Quote for the Day: Devote today to something so daring even you can't believe you're doing it. 
-Oprah.