My first ever marathon

Ahh.. finally... I get it done... what seemed like eternity at mile 22 is now a reality!!! Yes I did it! 26.2 no no.. 26.793 miles to be precise

Finally, I crossed that line to conquer 26.2 miles of asphalt on my foot in just under 6 hours. phew! what a relief now. I can try to beat the time taken to do it next year.. but as many of you may be wondering, 'what? when? how?' I think the most important question you should ask is why? [credit: a signature line from 'comfortablynumb'] Yes why was I running that distance is the question I will try to answer in this post. After reading the whole thing, may be you will support me or you will do it yourself...

First let me get the when and where out of the way..

I did the 2007 Dallas Whiterock Marathon on December 9th and took 5hr and 51mins to cross the finish line.

Also a little bit of how?

A group of us, runners, started to train with the local sport [mostly running] goods chain Run On. It was a great group to join and train and will most probably join them again for next year. It was an intensive 6 month training summer through fall and then ending with the marathon... contd.

And now to get to the reason of why I did it...