Marathon Training

I've been half-heartedly training for the St. George Marathon for the past three months. It's not how I always imagined training for a marathon would be. For one, I have only run about three times a week with no speed workouts. I'm slow, weigh the same I did when I started training, and when I finished my twenty-mile run last Tuesday, the thought of running another 10K made me want to cry. My original goal in signing up for the marathon was to qualify for Boston--not all that out of the question if I would have started five months ago and run five days a week. Now my goal is to finish, but even thinking about how painful this is going to be makes me wonder if just finishing is even worth it. After a relatively leisurely fourteen-mile run with my sister this morning, I have a blister the size of my pinkie toe on my big toe, a vague pain in my arch, and a triangle of chaffing under one of my arms. The marathon is two weeks from today. I feel queasy just thinking about it.