Training Log

So I'm in. Blame Jean-Yves. Or my ego. Or my desire to mark my 50th year with something that was just for me.

I've got a number to run in the 2012 New York City Marathon. Jean-Yves is going to run it too, my running-singing French friend who has been my inspiration for entering the race. I'm going to depend on alot of other friends too, but this is going to be a solo trip in many ways. I'll be training on my own - although I have ideas about trying to do some training with the Central Park Track Club on Thursday nights in the Park.

November 4th. It's less than 8 months away. I haven't run a marathon since 1993. A fantastic race in Boston that year, capping 8 years and 5 marathon races from Washington to New York to Boston. I was in good shape then - I think my time in '93 was something around 3:37; my best in 1988 was 3:17. I'm hoping (perhaps unrealistically) to run my '93 time or thereabouts.

I figured writing regularly about my journey to November would be another birthday present to myself. And so, here I go.

Wheeeee!