The Philadelphia Half Marathon is a mere 5 weeks away! By this time on November 18th I will be FINISHED and wearing a medal as a half-marathoner. I still wonder if I am crazy for attempting this...
Training has been going better than I thought it would be. For getting a rough start, I am really happy with where I am so far.
I hardly ran all summer. A few short 2 or 3 miles here or there, but I really put my energy into swimming and spin for most of the hot months. Yesterday morning I ran 10.52 miles and didn't walk any of it! I took a brief logistics break to talk with one of my girlfriends I was running with to chat about the end of our route, but other than that, I ran the entire time. I am about 30-45 seconds slower than my Broad Street pace from May, but I had to stop and walk 4 or 5 times (or more) during BSR. My goal is to make it through the half without walking.
My original goal was 2.5 hours, I finished the 10.5 in just a squeak under 2. I am hoping race day adrenaline can push me through to beat that goal time.
I was planning on following the Women's Health 10 week training guide for Half Marathons. With the passing of Russ' grandma and the start of a new school semester I definitely was not training like I should. The last few weeks have been much better and I've been following the Fitness magazines training guide. Instead of 4 short runs and 1 long run, I've been doing 2 shorter training runs and 2 days of spin and then the long runs on Saturdays.
Map My Run is my new favorite website. I have had a lot of fun tracking out different runs around my neighborhood and down around the Kelly Drive area. I am hoping next weekend to do somewhere between 11 and 12 miles, the following weekend get as close to full race distance as possible, and then back off to an 8 or 9 miles the week before.
I am looking in to some possible races to keep me going through the winter months. There is a 14k in February in Virginia Beach. It would give me a chance to visit my brother and the temps down there in February are much more mild than they are here in Philadelphia.
I'll try and keep my updates coming! Thanks to everyone that has offered me support and said such nice things about me blogging. Appreciated very much!!
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