Day 24 – Goodbye life, hello marathon prep

Status Update I am only one week into my 30-day blog challenge and it’s official, marathon prep has fully taken over my life. The things is, I really don’t mind. That was exactly my intention. You only run your first marathon once and when I look back on this experience I want to do it with no regrets. I don’t want to look back and think I could have written more, trained more.. Read More

T-30 Days

Almost exactly seven months ago I set out to cross an item off my bucket list. I decided that I was going to attempt to run a marathon. At the time that goal seemed so far away, in more ways than one. It not only seemed like an almost impossible task given that I could hardly run for 30 minutes, but “eight months from now” just seemed like so many days, weeks and.. Read More

40.2… +2

Welcome to Forty Two Point Two! This is a blog about running, written in a way that’s probably unlike any other running blog you’ve read. You see, I’m not really a runner. At least not yet, anyway. Over the next seven months, I will be blogging about my experience training with the University of Calgary’s Marathon Training Program as I learn everything about running a marathon from start to finish. Even as I.. Read More