My goal is to break three hours in a marathon

It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.

You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.

You train best where you are the happiest.

Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off.

Numbers don't lie. You always seem to remember your workouts as being a little better than they were. It's good to go back and review what you do.

You can actually suffer a little bit more going slowly than when you're going really fast. A faster marathon might even be easier than a slow one, in terms of what it takes out of you mentally.