Day #166: A Day of Firsts

July 1st, 2012

Today is my first day as a 3rd year family medicine resident.  My last year.

It is also the first day for pre-marathon training.  Remember that post a while back about me signing up for the Walt Disney World Marathon in January 2013, well I didn't forget about it - did you? 

For those of you who know me, you know I am not a runner.  Due to this minor detail, my marathon trainer tells me to start with walking - hence what I am calling pre-training.  Real training will start in 10 weeks after I have hopefully worked up to being able to jog for 30 mins straight.

You may be wondering if I feel any different now that I am a 3rd year resident and training for a marathon.  My answer is no, because I did not work today and today is a rest day for my week.  Goal training-wise for the week is to walk 30mins x 3days this week.

Here is the book I am using to guide my training.  It is written by professors at a college in Idaho or somewhere.  They taught a class for both runners and non-runners and out of 200 students only 1 has not completed a marathon.  I think the odds are in my favor.

Yeah - running clothes!  Fancy running hat w/ holes given to me by my training partner Sarah, because it's too big for her head.  Score!

I bought some of my running gear a while ago and I've been wearing it quite a bit - not because I'm running, but because it's sooooo HOT here.  These clothes feel like you have nothing on and you don't even have to wear underwear, because it's built right in!  It's awesome.  I LOVE running clothes.

Still need to buy a new pair of shoes, which will happen soon.

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marathon training update:  from now on I'll post how training is go on a daily basis as well as total milage to that point.

milage: 0

rest day

I feel good :)  haha