> training for that marathon to take over your life for, probably, about a year Nowhere near that long. There's actually a great book ("The Non-Runner's Marat

> training for that marathon to take over your life for, probably, about a year Nowhere near that long. There's actually a great book ("The Non-Runner's Marathon Trainer") which takes you, quite conservatively, from "I can run a few miles" to your first marathon day in 16 weeks. With runs on only 4 days a week -- only one of them a long run -- it hardly "takes over your life", either.