General Marathon info

BEGINNER MARATHON TRAINING SCHEDULE

Here are some sites that I found with walking plans for the marathon.

http://www.marathonwalking.com/schedule_beginner.html - this site has a great chart to follow and is set up for a 24 week plan (6 months!)

http://www.active.com/story.cfm?CHECKSSO=0&SIDEBAR=22&CATEGORY=Walking&STORY_ID=82 - I really enjoyed this article and the plan was something that sounded more personal. Please take a moment to read this article!

Here is the official site for the 2009 Portland Marathon!!! Go, look around and get excited!!!!
http://www.portlandmarathon.org/
I must say that I am really excited and would like to start having a long walk at least once a month with everyone involved! I think a good goal would be to have our first long walk in March or April....any thoughts???

ALSO....Sonia has suggested that we walk for a cause, lets get some feedback on that and then figure out what we are going to do AND DO IT! :) Here is what i am thinking, I love the idea of walking for a cause but I HATE asking people for money....especially in these economic times :) Honesty at its best. Lets dialog about this for a week or two and then come to a consensus.

How is everyone doing? Any walking going on? Get those booty's shaking and those hips a swingin'!

-T