Yesterday I reached 100 miles in my training for the Tobacco Trail Marathon, well… according to MapMyRun. In reality,  I hit 100 miles a few weeks ago but I don’t always load up the tracking apps for my runs. However, this seems like a fitting time to recap my training thus far and hopefully jumpstart future blogging on my training for my first marathon.

How did I get here? All the way back in April I sent my dad a link for a Disney Marathon. I always told myself that if I ever did a marathon it would be a Disney marathon. In April when I got an email from Disney that registration for their marathon was opening the next day, I forwarded the email to my dad and said, “I’ve been thinking about a goal of doing a marathon within the next year. Would you want to do this race with me? Sign up is tomorrow. And it usually sells out instantly. I know it’s short notice, but I think it would be really fun!” (Yep thanks to Google, I searched and found the exact email I sent to him back in April!). Well my dad, being the bargain hunter that he is, sent back a short message in reply… “How about we do this race instead… http://www.tobaccoroadmarathon.com/.”

Yep,  just a link to the race. I had heard of the Tobacco Road Marathon because my dad and brother ran it for the first time in March 2015. They had both completed several marathons previously and said it was an enjoyable race. According to the tagline on the race website, “Fast, Flat, and Fun!” which sounded pretty similar to their recap of the race. Being the optimist that I am, I replied back to my dad, “Okay that sounds good.” 30 minutes later I received an email confirmation with my race registration. Yes, my dad instantly registered us both for the race. In order to secure the lowest rate of course! Thus concludes the story of me signing up to run my first marathon.

Now fast forward another 6 months or so. I’ve been training for this race now for the past three months. I’ve trained for several half marathons, but I’m currently on the horizon of running the farthest I’ve ever run! So far my training has been going very well and it has been a great opportunity to see new parts of DC and other cities that I’ve been in during my training.

I am excited to see what the next 14 weeks have in store and where my training will bring me. If you want to follow along with my training logs, please subscribe to my blog along the right hand side. Do you have marathon training tips? Please comment below to share them with me!