Yawn...another blog about someone trying to run

In 35 days I am running the Miami Marathon. 35 days. I have no deeply spiritual or compelling reason I run. I am not running for a charity. I am not running for the memory of anyone. I am just running and in doing so, I would like to see how close my finishing time is to the qualification time of the Boston Marathon for my age group. I am 45 years old and for old dudes like me, the qualifying time is 3 hours and 30 minutes (roughly 8 minutes a mile for 26.2 miles). In qualifying for Boston, I suspect it will be some type of validation in my life. I will have done something meaningful in a purely objective measure. This blog will explore the "whys" and "hows" of my running life and in some small way, I hope someone will benefit from the effort.