Marathon Training Day One...

Today marked day one of marathon training for me. No it wasn't a run today, but rather cross training. So today I incorporated Pauline Nordin's, "The Butt Bible" and worked on my bum. Her fitness programs are insanely awesome and she is the real deal when it comes to intense training. I have followed her training programs on/off and they always deliver results. I also did plyometrics. This consisted of intervals of box jumps, ladder and rowing.

Today also was the very first day I got to bust out my early Christmas present from St. Nick! Five Finger Vibrams running shoes!The style is Bikila and they are faaaa-reaking fabulous! Oh yeah...just fabulous. My boyfriend has been running on Vibrams for years now and swears by them. He read the book "Born To Run", and it changed his life. I read it as well, and was hooked immediately on "bare-foot" running. That topic is a whole new blog post to go over, but you can imagine how excited I was opening my gift today.
 Aren't boyfriends...err, I mean Santa Claus wonderful! ;)