Registered for my first Full Marathon

I am in Maryland, US, on business now. I don’t know what I was thinking when Ram asked me to register for the Hyderabad Marathon on 31st August 2009. A full marathon. If all goes well, it’ll be my first marathon, a dream come true. I can imagine how great it would be to cross the finish line. I will be returning on the 17th Aug, so I have some time at hand to catch up with training. With the same excitement, I logged into the website to register, and again I don’t know what I was thinking when I registered myself for the full marathon. Though I ran two trail races while in the US, 12.1 miles and 7 miles, that’s nowhere close to 26.2 miles.

Nevertheless, I have registered myself and I want to put myself through it and finish it, NO MATTER WHAT. I so don’t want my first marathon to be a DNF (running terminology for Did Not Finish). I have several reasons to run this race, several… Let me see whether I am going to reach that magic number, 26.2 miles!!