Twin Cities Marathon, WHAT!?!?

I have just signed up for the Twin Cities Marathon.

This seems to come to a surprise to a lot of people as I have usually been known to compete in fast 5K races, and train with mostly speed work.

Let's just say, sometimes a guy reaches a point in his life where he has to prove to himself that he can do what would normally seem impossible. With my hernia and subsequent surgery, I will have gone 6 weeks without running. I will have 8 weeks to train for this marathon.

Also, going 6 weeks without doing something you really love to do; something that has become a big part of who you are -- it has taught me that being able to run is not something to take for granted. So when I can do it, by golly, I'm going to do it!

I was also inspired by reading the book Born to Run, which greatly demonstrates the joys of running long distances. In honor of this, I also plan to train to run this marathon in huarache running sandals (though I'm not 100% certain if this will work out).

In addition I am confident that training for a marathon will greatly improve my overall running ability and have a positive effect on my shorter distance running as well. I hope to journal my training experience in this blog.