Marathon Training (MT) - Day 2

Day 1 was a rest day, my favorite training day of the week! Day 2 called for 3 miles which I decided to run after work. Yesterday happened to be the hottest day of the year I swear, and me and hot-weather running don't always get along. Who am I kidding - NEVER get along! I head out the door around 6pm into the 90 degrees of hot/humidness, sans music, and think about what the next 126 days have in store for me. I thought about how hard it felt, how I was paying for my last few weeks of laziness with the unfamiliarity my legs and lungs now felt. I thought "how the hell are you going to run 26.2 miles in a matter of months when these three feel so difficult?". So yeah, first day of actual marathon training wasn't as uplifting as I hoped for. I trekked through it with what felt like heat rising from the streets and made it back, drenched in sweat and tired.

Am I scared? No. Am I excited? Not yet..but I will be :) I know this endeavor will require more than just the physical, I know this will be a testament of my mind, body, and spirit and I welcome that challenge. I look forward to growing stronger with each run and each rest, and accomplishing something that so few do.

I don't have my garmin with me so I don't have my actual splits but my stats were about:
3.00 miles
30:36
10:12 average pace

A little slower than normal but I am ok with that.

So my friends, I leave you with this...

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
- Aristotle