Practice? We talkin' bout Practice?

If you google "Marathon Training" you get an awful lot of results. Everyone has an opinion of how you should train, distances you should run, rest you should take, etc.

The decision of which training method I chose doesn't hold the drama of, say, Lebron's choice in Free Agency, but it was a choice that will severely impact how the next few months will unfold for me.

I went through a lot of the options and settled on one that I felt appropriate for me. The top two choices were Marathontraining.com and Hal Higdon's Marathon Training Guide. I ended up going with Hal Higdon's novice training schedule for a few reasons.

1) I'm not looking to break any records, my goal is to finish this thing; and
2) I felt the weekday training runs fit into my schedule much easier than other programs I had seen.

Like most people, I lead a fairly busy life. It's hard to find time to disappear on a run for an hour-plus during the week. This method doesn't demand too much week-day time which was a huge selling point for me.