today is nearly yesterday

Well.
It's been decided. I, along with my dear sisters, will be running in the Nashville Country Music Marathon on the 28th of April.
Maybe I have just caught marathon fever. It seems every other person I meet is doing or has done a marathon. My middlest sister is gearing up for her second.
I don't claim to be a runner.
I actually have expressed passionate hate towards running. on many occasions.

It all started to turn when I was a waitress.
I would work many long hours with meals on the go consisting of breadsticks and salad dressing. I knew I would turn into a breadstick if I kept it up so I started working out. Then I started working more. I wouldn't get off until 11 pm or later and usually would have a surplus of energy and a hella lot of stress. And at this time of night the gym would be closed. Blah blah blah... all of this to say I took up running as a theropy of sorts. It made a dramatic difference in how I felt at work and about work.
So then I have this new bond with running on a more emotional level than before. Before it was an obligation - not a good reason to do ANYTHING, by the by.

But the idea of running for hours never has even crossed my mind.

So I have 33 weeks. The recommended time frame from nothing to marathon is about 18 or 20 weeks. so - surely I can do this, right?
The plan is to go for the half marathon. That's reasonable. But how sweet it would be to make it a whole. But I am not going to get too ambitious.
after all
I am not a runner.