Training Guides...

One Wednesday, I ordered The Non-Runner's Marathon Trainer from Amazon.com, which promises to train you to run a marathon in 16 weeks. I have about 16 weeks before the San Francisco Marathon on July 30. I hope the book arrives soon.

In the mean time, I picked up a couple of other books at the Berkeley library today: The Complete Book Of Running For Women and The Beginning Runner's Handbook: The Proven 13-Week Walk-Run Program. Tonight, I have already read The Complete Book of Running for Women from cover to cover. I am so excited by all this!

I just hope that I will get past all the reading and buying accoutrements and actually have the fortitude and stamina to do all the running! No, I know I can. That's what I told myself a few mornings ago when I was walking as fast as I could the 5 miles from my house to Lake Merritt BART station before work. My shins were on fire as I walked. But I kept repeating, "I know I can do this. I know I can do this." Which I think is a much more powerful mantra than simply, "I can do this."