Training Day 2

I am taking a page from my friend's blog (http://crazy4marathoning.blogspot.com/) and writing down my training efforts. If you look up, you'll see that my blog is starting on the second training day. This is because somebody neglected to tell me that we started training on Monday with a bit of cross-training. Oh well. Tomorrow I shall have my revenge with our first 3 mile run. Mwaha.

For now I'll be titling this posts on Marathon Time (MT). This all started because my friend (I am going to borrow from another friend of mine and dub the first friend "The Mom-rine") asked me to run a marathon with her. Sure! Why not? It's not like I have anything better to do than train for 16 weeks leading up to a 26.2 mile run. Besides, I get a nifty medal at the end of it all to flash at anyone who asks me why I'm dead on my feet the next day (being Monday).

Seriously. It should be fun and I'm looking forward to the experience, the bragging rights, and the high level of fitness that makes it all possible. 300 PFT here I come!

However, while this blog will be on MT, it won't just be about the marathon. I'm working on a lot of different projects to try and better myself. I agree with Sir Charny that prowess is the cornerstone of chivalry and, as such, need to be better at what I do. I also think that a true gentleman warrior needs to be diverse so I'll be rambling on here about my language training, military education, college education, weight lifting, running, study of the science of ass-kickery, spiritual studies, dancing, drawing, guitar playing, and whatever else I happen to pick up. Now, that's a lot so I won't be writing about all of it all the time. I still need to develop my gaming skills too.

Language: I received the scores to my first test in my new class! 96 (A-) in reading, 96 (A) in listening, and a B+ in speaking. This is a vast improvement over failing. Thank you very much Dr. Heal for diagnosing me, Advantacare for supplying the gear, and Tri-West for footing the bill! I actually like studying now, depraved as that sounds, so today I did six homework book exercises and worked on my daily vocab practice. This morning I had speaking practice too.

Marathon: As I mentioned above, this is technically the second training day). I used it to get new running shoes from Fleet Feet as my previous ones were too small, too tight, beat up, and blister-inducing. On the inside of the arches of my feet no less. Tomorrow, I really start training by leading the Momrine on a 3 mile run. Now, I can run a 3 mile no problem and do it every so often. The Momrine, however, is just now getting off of her pregnancy no-PT chit... It'll be fun. I hope she's hydrated.