My son wants to run a marathon!

     This weekend a friend of mine ran his first marathon to celebrate his 60th birthday. It took him 7 hours and 34 minutes and I met him two miles from the finish line to encourage him as he went to the finish. He finished his marathon and now joins an elite group of people. My oldest son was rather excited about running the last part of the marathon and now would like to run the Mountain Home Marathon for Kenya next year. I told him if he wants to run a marathon that we would need to start training for it and would need to try running a 5K first, and then maybe a half marathon, before we tried to do the marathon. I told him if he wants to do it then we would need to start training. Before I dropped him off at school this morning I told him we would need to start training now if we are going to try running a marathon. When I got home from work I ran a mile on the treadmill and then he ran on the treadmill. I will definitely have my work cut out for me because I ran a mile in fifteen minutes and my son ran two miles in the same time. Having my son to train with may be helpful.