"Let's begin...by contemplating the training that will begin tomorrow"

"Today begins the countdown to the LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon. Eighteen weeks to go before you will be standing on the starting line in Grant Park. In this training schedule for novice marathoners, Monday is always a day of rest. Count on it!"
-- Hal Higdon, Novice training program, Week One, Monday

And this is how the training program starts. With rest, which is pretty cool with me. This is how work schedules should operate too. Make Monday a rest day there too -- I'm a huge supporter of a 4-day work sked, though sadly, not an actual practitioner. The as-yet-to-join-the-blogosphere Frankie asked whether my training actually does begin today since there is no actual running involved. Of course it counts, I said, arguing that REST is the best word we'll hear for the next 18 weeks. Massage is second-best (but only because it's expensive).
((Edit: To be fair, Frankie wasn't saying that it didn't count, but that you know, how does a training program begin with a Rest Day. I can see his point))

Further, from Hal, "...Let's begin this Monday, the first day of your marathon journey, by contemplating the training that will begin tomorrow. Chicago, here I come!"

Indeed.