0 to 9 miles in 6 weeks
Marathon training started 6 weeks ago tomorrow. When I began, I hadn’t been doing any running or really any exercise at all. Today, Lisa and I cranked out 9 miles around Folsom. Mind you, I wasn’t exactly burning up the roads (though I was burning up the calories, almost 1600 to be exact)…but I did finish. It’s hard to believe that back in the first week we only ran 3 miles for the long run. Now, just 5 weeks after that run I’m running 3 times that distance.
Next week is the big mental distance…double digits.
Here’s the totals from the last 5 weeks of training (I don’t have any totals from the first week since I didn’t have my nifty new watch):
Distance: 68.34 miles
Time: 16 hours, 51 minutes, 28 seconds
Energy: 12,350 calories
