Marathon Training, day 1

Day one. The alarm sounded at 0500. It was the hardest thing to wake up this morning. I laid in bed for nearly 20 minutes trying to come up with some excuse to stay in bed. The excuse never came so I finally got up at 0520. After getting everything together and putting it in my backpack I rode four mile to the gym. The ride turned out to be just the thing I needed to get motivated. I wore my new sunglasses, a pair of yellow "roadsters" from Red Star World Wear, they have orange lenses so they're appropriate to wear in low light.
I got to the gym about 15 minutes later than I wanted to, so I didn't have time to do the weight portion of the workout. The schedule called for a 45 minute run at an easy/steady pace and before I started I kept asking myself if I should do the sub-elite training plan, because I am not that accomplished of a runner yet, but I decided I would rather start sooner than later. I started at a pace of 8:00 but as I ran that dropped closer to a 7:45 pace. I felt really good this morning. The mild ache in the arch of my right foot I have felt for about a month has gone away, but now I have a dull ache in my left knee. It is to be expected I guess. There are few days a 30 year old soon to be father of three and a US sailor can feel 100% but my body is still able to pretty much everything I ask of it, so I can't complain too much about. The 45 minute run resulted in almost a 10k, I ended up running a distance of 5.77 miles, and felt great afterwards. I'm really curious to see how I feel this week, especially since I had to change the rest day from Friday to Sunday. Six straight days of training are going to take a while to get used to.