Training

 Last Friday I woke up at 3:55 in the morning to go run my "leg" of the Ogden Marathon Relay......The original plan was to run 5 miles and then give encouragement to my wife who is in training for a half marathon.  The first 5 miles felt really good, so I thought I would stay with her to run the next leg so we could both end up doing 10.  I have not ran more than a mile at a time in over two years but I have been training every day trying to break into different metabolic pathways.  And so we got to 10 and figured this would be the one time in my life I actually ran a half marathon so we just kept going.  I realize 2 hours and 6 minutes is not the fastest half marathon time of all time and according to Erin, at the aid stations after mile 11 and 12 I was a ravage beast, but consider that I never run more than 2 miles a week and it is proof that this type of training can prepare you for just about anything.  Oh and for the record my wife was amazing and if it had not been for her, I would have quit with 5.