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Today is 11/11 and I have created this blog to track my marathon training and other things happening in my life.
I am going to run the Boston Marathon! http://pages.teamintraining.org/ma/boston10/gswaffar
We officially started training last Sunday. My team will be doing long runs on Saturday mornings together. We start at 3 miles this Saturday (11/14) and will be increasing 1 mile per week for the next 20 or so weeks. I have a lot of work ahead of me! Today is technically day 4 of training and so far I have stuck exactly to the training plan :)
Not only do I have a ton of work to do to prepare for the race, I also have to raise $4,000! I am a very slow runner so there is no way I could actually qualify for the Boston Marathon. This is why I am doing it through a charity. There is so much support through this charity that it totally makes it worth it.
On another note we are bringing Luke (my 14 month old son) to the Ear, Nose, and Throat Dr. today. We are having his hearing tested and we are going to talk to the Dr. about possibly having tubes put in his ears to help avoid so many ear infections. Whatever we decide I hope he spends less time sick this winter.
That's all for now.