If Lady Luck smiles

I took up jogging again. When? Yesterday. Why? Because I watched Tokyo city marathon on TV. Watching people running with tear-jerking episodes, I would like to be the one to have that sensation. I declared to my family that I will apply for the marathon next year. My daughter responded "Application is easy but you will have to survive a lottery that chooses 30000 runners out of 150000 applicants." OK, I have to be lucky then. But so what? It will not be my fault if I failed in the lottery anyway. All I have to do is to prepare for the race.
If you decide to do something on a certain day, the day is dies faustus to start. （思い立ったが吉日. I translated.）. I quickly changed my clothes to training wear and went out to find out what it is like to run 42.195 km within 7 hours. I used to jog. I know the distance from my home to Komazawa park. Going to the park, going around the park once and coming back home makes 6.2 km. The problem is how long it takes me to run that distance. The result was 50 minutes, which was achieved by half running and half walking. Not bad for the first trial. If I can keep up this pace throughout the marathon, 6 hours is the time for me to run or walk over the finish line. No no, It's not as easy as that. I must not forget that I will have to repeat today's run 7 times. I don't know if I can do it right now. But I'm well prepared for the training. On 22nd March next year I can vividly imagine myself triumphantly passing the goal line. The only problem is if Lady Luck will smile on me at the lottery.