I know! It’s not Jan 1 yet. But I just couldn’t wait to post my goals for next year. Obviously the biggie is the marathon, but I think after I finish (hopefully!) that I want to work on speed a little bit. I’m pretty confident that I can achieve these goals, but I think they’re challenging enough for me that I will have to work pretty hard on them.
I think the best part of being a fairly “new” runner (began in March 09) is that I can realistically expect to …

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it here, but I am a runner.
It started this past Spring Break, when I joined my mom for a very uncharacteristic beach vacation to Jamaica:
Not being much of a “snooze by the oceanside” person, I decided to get up early in the mornings for the morning walk, a three-mile powerwalk along the hilly golf course next to our hotel. About halfway through the first one, I thought to myself “I could run this…” and so I did. And the next day I ran a …