It’s official – I signed up for my first marathon today! I’ll be running the ING Georgia Marathon on March 21, 2010.

I have been debating doing a marathon for a long time, with the original goal of signing up for one this fall. However, I’m going to be on vacation for 3 weeks, and then cyclocross season starts – neither of which are very conducive to the marathon lifestyle. Due to this, I decided that 2010 was going to be the year of the marathon for me.

I’m sure I’ll have more to say about this in the coming weeks, but I look forward to having this finite goal and event to train for. There is nothing like laying down cold hard cash on the race registration free to motivate you to train! My training starts up soon after cyclocross season ends, with enough of a break for me to recover! It should be fun doing my first marathon on home turf – the route actually goes directly by my apartment, if I weren’t running it I could watch/cheer from my balcony. Who knows, if I catch the marathon bug this race, this could be the first of many marathons I do for 2010!