Up to now

This is my first post, but my fourth training run. I joined the training program late, which has given me an accelerated training schedule.
I decided I was going to run this marathon in April. I started in just before my birthday simply enough at 1o minutes. I barely did a mile. Slowly I did 2 miles. All the while I tried getting in contact with Team in Training to run this marathon with them. They kept trying to get me to run another marathon. I didn't want another marathon. I wanted to go to Honolulu. I talked to my friend Katie, who reminded me that she ran the Honolulu marathon with AIDSMarathon.org. OI! Of course. The next day I called AIDS marathon. I was late joining so I had to do a time trial on my own. I ran three miles on Thursday. (27 minutes). I was told that my pace group will be one minute slower than my time. That put me in the 10minute/mile pace group.
Aids marathon names each pace group after famous marathon runners. My group is Tegla Loroupe.

Some more history. I currently Live in San Francisco but am working in LA. This means I commute between SF and LA a lot.
I did my three mile run in LA at lunch time.
That first week with the group I ran four miles at the San Francisco site. We run out of golden gate park, right by the ocean near the huge windmill. It is cool there. Even at 9am the fog is still strong. Since everybody else was running 6 miles, I was supposed to gradually build up my mileage and catch up with every one in a couple of weeks. But instead I ran 7 miles. Just cuz I wanted to be like everyone else.
The next week (July 17th) I was in LA. Running Sunday in LA is tough! The Sunday group runs in Griffith park. It is a lot hotter there than golden gate park in San Francisco. First of all, we start at 7am. That is bad enough. There is no ocean breeze at Griffith park and it is HOT! AND we started the run going up hill! I am really weak at hills. But I did my eight miles and all was well.
At this LA meeting I finally got my fundraising packet. Reading through my packet I realized that I am supposed to be training a lot harder than I am. I am supposed to be cross training three times a week (40minutes each time), with two maintenance runs (30-40 min) plus our long training run on Sunday. What does this mean? It means I am behind. I have only done one maintenance run each week. Though last week I played ultimate Frisbee. That uses a lot of sprinting, which uses totally different muscles. good. I need to speed up anyway.

that's enough history for now.