I have worked very hard for the past 12 years of my life to do my school work and to pass each grade.  I had really hoped that I would be able to take it a little easier this year, take the final classes I needed to graduate, play basketball and have a good time.   At my school Greer Middle College Charter High Schoool (GMC) all seniors have to complete a senior project.  After much thought over the summer, I thought it would be neat to begin a workout routine to change my body composition, however, the committee that reviews the proposals did not approve mine because they said it was not enough of a stretch for me since I'm already an athlete.  So I had to try to figure out another idea. I wanted to do something with physical fitness because that is where my interest is and they said we should pick something that we could stay interested in for the whole year.   So I decided to run a half marathon.  They approved this idea with a few changes / additions. They recommended running multiple half marathons and trying to improve my time with each race.  I agreed to this and then began looking a  for mentor.  I was very lucky that my parents know a wonderful man named Rick Kattouf who was a personal fitness coach.  We talked with him and he has agreed to work with me to help me train for the three half marathons. Today I am going to the mentor meeting to meet Rick for the first time. As of right now I am going to run 3 half marathons, 1 at the end of this month, one in January  and one in April. I am going to learn a lot tonight.