I want to be real good wrote:
I started running a year ago and worked my way up to the marathon distance very quickly so I know I'm talented. I took it pretty easy and still broke 4 hours on my very first marathon. I want to qualify for the olympic trials and am willing to put all my other obligations job, wife, kids on the side to do it, but I don't know how to train properly for a marathon. Any advice?
1) The drops in time become increasingly difficult, sure you might drop 15-20 minutes very easily to 3:35, but you will find the drop to 3:00 quiet a bit more difficult and the drop from 3:00-2:40 will take years of training (not months) and the drop from 2:40 to 2:20 will take another few years at best (we are talking no injuries and solid perfect training). I suppose if everything went perfect you could POSSIBLY (but I'd give you a 1 in million shot at it) be close to 220 by the qualifiers for the 2016 Olympics but I would but all my current savings and all my future earnings against you making it to 2012, it flat out won't happen.
2) You sound like a selfish ass (added to the ignorance from point 1), willing to drop your obligations to your wife and kids. Whats funny is you have no shot of making it in 2012 and pretty much no shot of making it ever, yet you would through sometihng like that away? Pathetic. Actually I take that one in a million shot back, anyone who would willing give up such obligations and commitments like you propose here will never have the discipline or will power it takes to run 220.
3) You are either an ignorant, selfish, egotistical ass who really needs to take a good hard look in the mirror and figure out what is important in life and what kind of man you want to be (at this point deciding to be a man at all might be a good place to start since you are "dropping your obligations")...or...you are trolling and I have just been had....lets hope its the later.