This is my marathon performance calculated over the past two years. As you can see, I have improved with each successive marathon performance. The time is calculated in minutes: 300 minutes= 5 hours, 240 minutes= 4 hours 30 minutes, 195 minutes=3 hours, 15 minutes, which is the qualifying time for my age group for the most famous marathon, the Boston Marathon. You can notice that I broke the 4 hour barrier with a time of 3 hours and 57 minutes, averaging a pace 9 minutes per mile for 26.2 miles total. My goal for 2009 is to beat my previous time and perhaps qualify for the Boston Marathon. It is possible because I have cut more than 45 minutes off my finishing time since my first marathon, but I will have to decrease the pace of my runs and increase the frequency of my training runs in order to meet that goal.