The Starting Line

Hello world!  If you are reading this, at this point in my blogging it probably means that you have wandered off the beaten path of the interwebs and are lost in the forbidden forest comprised of 1) new bloggers who think their words fall upon expectant ears, 2) "artful" pictures of cats, food, or first-person views of a lady's legs whilst lounging poolside, and/or 3) Twilight fan-fiction.  I fall into the first category, though to forewarn you, my rambling and oft-incoherent writing may be more readily categorized into the third option listed above.

Marathon "Finisher" - in that I finished as
much of the course as they would let me

The main purpose of my writing here and now is that I wanted an outlet to vent, cheer, review, and occasionally boast about my personal adventures in running.  Most of the next several months will be focused on training for my first marathon, and the highs and lows that will inevitably accompany my training.  I don't fancy myself a tremendous athlete; I've only been running for about two years, and I still find myself firmly entrenched in the middle to middle-back of most running packs.  However, I will still try and provide some perspective on the world of running through my mediocrity.

A good starting point for this blog is to mention that I was supposed to have finished my first marathon by this point.  I was recently in the Cellcom Green Bay Marathon on May 20th, and found out about halfway through that the course was closing due to the heat and humidity causing heat exhaustion and other heat-related injuries.  The volunteers told me that the county was rapidly running out of ambulances to transport runners, and the medical staff was overwhelmed at the finish line.  Disgruntled and disappointed, I dragged my feet another 1.5 miles or so before the next set of volunteers insisted the course was really closing, including fluid stations, so there was no point in going on.  15 miles into my first marathon, I was forced to stop due to the medical director's decision.  I will write about this at length in another post, but for now suffice it to say that I am not yet a marathoner.

More to come later this week.  But for now, thank you for finding my blog, however you came across it.