Side Effects of training for a marathon

You've heard the urban legends about what weird things your body goes through when you make it run over 20 miles each week. We're here to tell you, it's not all rumors. You can't fully appreciate it until you've experienced it for yourself but in case anyone in our audience is considering training for a marathon, here are some things you can expect:

• Good thing it's winter because we aren't wearing cute sandles anytime soon
• Blisters blisters and blisters on top of blisters
• Bruised toe nails (if they haven't fallen off yet)
• Chafing of anything that touches any type of clothing or body part (you'd be surprised)
• Weird and unexpected changes in your eating habits
• "ouch" becomes a much more common word around the house. Those around you begin to ignore it thinking you are probably just walking to the kitchen again.
• Spending hours a day running interrupts your social schedule
• You start to feel the affects after one drink where it used to take you more than that
• No more sleeping in on the weekends
• Any shoes bu running shoes just won't work for things like going to work, the grocery store, ect....

More to come as we realize them. Happy running to your runners!