Through the Beginning

Fully in training now. Got through the initial stiff-and-sore-all-over feeling, during which I found the areas I want to concentrate on. First, toe and heel walks. I can feel it doing good things in a critical area. I have new improved stretches (especially IT band and hamstrings), core every other day with balance exercises. My distance plan is gelling, the final series of weekends looks like this: half marathon, 18 miles, half marathon, 20 miles, then only 12 miles, taper, marathon. If all goes well, the first half marathon and the marathon will be PRs. That's the goal.

So far, so good. I've been hurting in all the right places, much better now.