Prelim Research

Amazingly concise-and-to-the-point website:
http://www.marathontraining.com/

I have done minimal research and simply committed to the following schedule:































The following logic was simple - Chicago Marathon is scheduled for October 10th http://www.chicagomarathon.com/cms400min/chicago_marathon/
Therefore, I had to start at week 9 of the mileage buildup schedule in order to sync the timing.

In retrospect, after reading all of the articles on the website mentioned above, it was not a good idea to jump from zero to 22 mi/week. but I knew that I would start easy, at my own pace.