Hi there and welcome to my little running blog :)

A bit of a back story so you have a bit of an understanding about who I am and why the hell am I doing something so crazy as training for a marathon (even crazier if you knew me personally - lazy is my middle name). So these are the facts about me:

I am 24 years old and I have a daughter in preschool. I am in my final year of studying to be an RN and work as a paediatric nurse in the meantime. I have started doing trapeze lessons. Yes, the trapeze from circuses where you fly through the air and hope the guy on the other trapeze catches you in time. I never ran during our school carnivals, and I've certainly never run just because I could or wanted to. In fact, until a few months ago, exercise was not even a word in my vocabulary, and even since then, it's been a once a week personal training session with my girlfriends, where I'm sure they'd agree that I do more whinging about the exercise than exercise itself.

And the biggest fact about me currently is that I am in my second week of training for a marathon! I am beginning my journey towards a marathon with the running program known as the 'Couch to 5km' and last night completed Day 1 of Week 2. It's a 9 week program, designed to take non-runners and make them able to run 5km (funnily enough!) by the end of it. So that is my first goal - to stick to this program and finish the C25K by the 7th March!

How I got to this goal of running a marathon, of all the possible, much more achievable goals in the world, is beyond me. I'd heard about the C25K years ago, downloaded the podcasts and never stepped out of my front door. Clearly it wasn't a priority. Since then, I have intermittently thought of it, wanting to get fit but never having the motivation. Something snapped though, and here I am.

So my goals for running, this year, are as follows...

Small goal - Finish C25K by 7th March 2010

Medium goal - Complete the Blackmore's Half-Marathon (21km - eek!) in October 2010

Big ass goal - Work on getting up to Marathon Runner status for a marathon sometime in 2011, I'm not sure when they're on nor when is a good timeframe to work towards at this stage.

I am a complete newbie to this running gig, as you know, so this blog may be filled with a whole lot of whinging, complete non-facts about running or any other kind of drivel that pops into my head as a result of doing more exercise this year than in all the years of my life put together.

So wish me luck, send me suggestions, keep me accountable and most importantly of all, my new mantra when it feels my lungs are dying, I'm going to explode, I might spontaneously combust, I might kill the little voice in my earphones that keeps telling me to run or all of the above - feel it, live it, love it!