Getting Started

The road to Marathon is going to be a long one, I can tell right now. The biggest danger facing me and people like me is that I tend to be one of those fools who rush in where angels fear to tread!

An example of Bruce-logic is that to run a twenty-six mile race I will need to build up to twenty-six miles every day! Then, so goes the Bruce-Logic, by the time race day arrives a twenty-six mile run is a walk in the park!

The reality of this has its own logic. Building up to twenty-six miles a day and then running it every day will cripple you for life if you are lucky. Assuming I had the stones to do it, the practice would most likely simply kill me.

So I consulted the web and wow, are there a lot of sites on marathon training. After looking at a great many, I selected this one as the training routine I would start with:

http://www.marathontraining.com/index.html

The way I see it, if I decide it isn't appropriate I'll find another. In any case, its a start and the big thing for me, is getting started.