The Nonrunner’s Marathon Guide For Women

Looking for a little inspiration during these brisk winter days, may I recommend training for a marathon?  If any of you are like me, I personally LOATHE running.  I secretly feel like a hamster in a hamster wheel as I get down on the treadmill.  I mean seriously, we spend an hour running and yet we end up at the very same place we started.  It doesn’t seem super sensible to me, but like many of you, I still do it!  Last year I decided to train for a half-marathon.  I decided that perhaps training like a runner would morph me into one of those super-psyched running types who just beam when talking about running and carry around a pair of running shoes in the event the spirit moves them to break into a full trot.  Well…..it didn’t exactly happen for me.  In fact, I still see it as a necessary evil, but I did accomplish goals and ran further than I ever thought I could run, and felt really good about being able to eat whatever I wanted to for the sake of “training”.  

 One of the tools I used to get me motivated was the book, The Nonrunner’s Marathon Guide For Women.  The author, Dawn Dais, is brilliantly cynical and wonderfully witty.  Throughout the book, she offers journal entries that had me laughing out loud.  She is just a regular gal, allergic to exercise, like many of us, who provides the average person with the do’s and don’ts of preparing for a marathon (or half marathon).  Even if you do not see a marathon in the future, check out the book for a few good laughs and some exercise motivation.