Marathon Motivation

This week a friend of mine recommended a website to me that helps prepare you for a marathon, http://www.halhigdon.com. One of my life goals is to run a marathon and I really want to run one this year. I have never entered any running competitions before and so I am a bit of a novice. There are two big marathon events in the Beijing area this year; the Great Wall Marathon in May and the Beijing Marathon in October. Perhaps I should aim to run the half marathon in May and the full marathon in October. Anyway the website I mentioned looks very helpful. It has some great features such as training schedules, covering different distances, as well as lots of information to make you a better runner. I really hope this can help and inspire me to complete one of these training programs so that I can achieve my target this year. I shall no doubt keep this updated as to how it is progressing.