One week down, lots to go

After my first week of official marathon training, I'm still alive and kicking!  : )  Ok so it wasn't all too strenuous of a week.  I had a few runs, being 3 and 4 miles long they only scratched the surface of what's to come.  But nonetheless, I kept all my average mile splits under 10:00 without having to push myself too hard.  Hey...for me, that's a pretty good start!  I picked up a friend to run with...one of my Blades teammates will be joining me for the 26.2 miles come April 18th.  She'll be a 'bandit' and I'm very excited to have her along for the training journey / marathon experience!  We sat down together to go over the marathon training plan provided by Dana Farber / Jack Fultz, our training advisor, and settled on moving the weekly calendar ahead by one day so our 'long' runs each week will fall on Friday rather than Saturday.  Since our hockey games are played on Saturday and Sunday, we decided that running 15 miles before a hockey game in February might not be our best bet!  Needless to say I've been excited to get back into a daily routine.  Also, my fundraising letters have been finished, printed, and are in the process of being stamped/signed/addressed/sent out the door!  Just in time for Christmas  : )  I hope you'll consider making a donation in support of the DFMC team - there's no better gift than changing the life of someone else in need.