30 Week Marathon Training 1st run tonight

Today will be my first official run of the Hal Higdon’s Supreme Novice 30 week marathon program.  According to this plan, there will be 148 running workouts between now and October 7^th when I accomplish my goal of completing the Twin Cities Marathon.  When I put it that way, it scares me a lot - it kind of seems impossible that this number of workouts will be enough to get me ready, but I am going to give this my best effort and hopefully I can finally follow through with something.  I plan to use this blog to record this attempt as I go.  Above you will see a pic from the “run” that I did on New Year’s Day – You’ll notice the “playoff” beard that I started somewhere around the time we went to Boston for Gracie’s last surgery -  I’m keeping the beard for awhile – I use it as a daily reminder of what I’m working to accomplish this year.  It’s gotten much bushier since then, and frankly, it really helps keep people from sitting next to me on the bus to and from work.  I should only resemble the guy in this photo when I cross the finish line on Oct 7th.  Please wish me luck – I’ll really need it.