I've been taken with the idea of running the Philly marathon this November. I'm a little late into the training cycle to do it gradually, but with a little luck and my body holding up I should be okay. I'm tired of training over the last few years with no races to show for it. My best memories of running in the last 5 years have all been the races I've done, despite loving the training and the communion with the Lord of life I find on my runs in the woods (which is the primary reason I run). My couple of attempts to run a marathon so far have been met with injury(due to changing my shoes in a training cycle) and getting pnuemonia (which I'm not sure I really had). I'm going to go for it, and see what happens.