It's Time To Get Serious

It's time to get serious...about marathon training that is. I've upgraded my shoes, my shorts, my sports bra, my heart rate monitor, my music on my iPod and while all of that is considered an integral part of the preparation (well, in my world it is), I have officially taken my marathon training to the next step. I have a marathon trainer.

That's right folks, I officially have arrived in the world of training for a marathon. My new coach (that sounds very official, doesn't it?) and I are going to meet about evaluating where I am now and developing a plan on getting me to the finish line in record time. (Ok, so we're really going to focus on my best time and the beauty of that is I've never run a marathon before, so any time would be a personal record.) My new trainer, Lou, has been taking my Spinning class for years. He's retired and spends his days working out (this is my dream!) and runs marathons several times a year. He's qualified for Boston on numerous occasions and for fun, he takes on charity cases like me. Also, it just so happens that the Disney Marathon was the first one that he ever did. I asked him jokingly in my Spinning class the other night if he would train me (I really only wanted the ability to say that I had a trainer and thus sound cooler for the next 7 months), but he agreed without hesitation and told me to give him a call.

Then I got really excited because now I wasn't just going to sound cooler, but I was actually going to be cooler. I've already thought of ways to work "my marathon coach said" into virtually every conversation. To use the words of my brother, I think I just got 15% more fit for just having a marathon trainer.