Blast from the past!

Hey all,

Here's a motivational picture, guess who?!?! Way back in 1995 I'd run a marathon relay where I did 4.5 miles. I saw the full marathoners and at that point decided I wanted to do the full thing 4 months later. There was no doing a 10k or a half marathon first, I knew I wanted to go long. I wanted to truely test myself and here was the perfect distance. My training consisted of reading magazines going out and running till I drop. FWIW I did understand the concept of the long run(although I basically just ran till I couldn't run anymore then walk the rest of the way home). and doing shorter runs between with some faster than others. That's it, I did ok finishing in 3:36 with some walk breaks and I remember hurting so bad at the finish it was unbearable.

DP