Beth Runs!

After sitting on my butt all winter, knitting and watching Craig Ferguson into the wee hours, it's time to get up, get out, and move!!!

Saturday, April 08, 2006

Hmmm...

The Non-Runner's Marathon Trainer arrived today! Sadly, the promise of training you to run a marathon in 16-weeks has a catch that was not divulged on the Amazon.com web site. The 16 weeks does not begin until you are able to jog continuously for 30 minutes! The authors stress that it is extremely important to slowly work up to the 30 minutes so as to train the bones and muscles of the feet and legs and to avoid injury. The book includes a preliminary training program which must be completed before the official 16-week program begins.

You begin the program at your current level. The first 4 weeks are walking only. I can skip those because I can easily walk 15 minutes/mile for 45 minutes. Week 5 is intervals of jogging 5 minutes and walking 5 minutes for 30 minutes. This is where I will have to begin.

My knees are already sore from the work outs with Tuelo and the running/walking on the tradmill that I have been doing. And I don't even run for 5 minutes at a time! Realistically, I won't be ready for the marathon by July 30. This is sad for me because I already announced to everyone that I was going to do it. But I don't want to ruin my knees. I don't want knee replacement surgery when I'm Mom's age. And I don't want to injure myself so that I can't complete a marathon at a later date.

I think I will have to switch to one of the half marathons on July 30. I don't think I will get a refund of the full fee that I paid. (The half marathon is less expensive than the full marathon.) But it's just money, right?

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