Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the first ever episode of Project 259. I'm your host, Dominic Schleader.

And Project 259 is my pursuit and journey and documenting my buildup of trying to break the three-hour barrier in the marathon.

In my first ever marathon, which will be the 2003 Columbus Marathon, which will take place October 15th,

2020. So just under 10 weeks away. Along me in this journey is my coach, coach Alex,

for those who aren't familiar with Alex, he ran for Stanford University and then the University

of North Carolina, where he was a multi-time All-American. I think he holds PRs of 350 in the mile,

1318 and the 5K. And he also has a fast 10K as well. So he's more than qualified to coach me in this

journey. Today's episode is very much introductory. We kind of just kick things off, light

discussion, and we also get into a lot of subjects relating to training, how heat will affect things as I live

in Austin, how we're preparing for a marathon, what makes a marathon unique, all sorts of

different topics and things discussed in the first ever episode. I'm so excited to kick this thing off

and really show you guys and document what will be my hopefully first marathon and hopefully in

under three hours. I'm quite frankly, have no clue how this will go, but that's what makes it

exciting. And if you guys knew I would break three hours and if I knew I'd break three hours,

it wouldn't be exciting. So the fact that there's some doubt and some, who knows how it will go

type of thing makes it all the more exciting.

One quick note, if you have not already done so, I would greatly appreciate you giving us a

follow, a five-star review, and sharing today's episode with a friend who you think will benefit

from it.

And then one final note, this series is presented by Final Surge, a platform that Alex and I

are using to create our training and

really maximize my training and preparation leading into this sub three hour marathon attempt.

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