For the past year, Brett and I have been on and off training for a half marathon. We have made calendars with our daily workouts on them....usually we do really good for the first month or so but then once we miss one day it seems a lot easier to miss another day, and another day and before we know it we haven't ran for 5 days!! It's so frustrating. We began following a plan to have us ready for an October 23rd half, but the problem was we were training in the middle of the hottest summer in Texas history...not a good idea! We have ended up running a lot of our runs either split between a treadmill and outside, or solely on the treadmill. Let me tell you, training on a treadmill is a lot different then running outside. So once again, doesn't look like we will be running the half next month!!
I think our biggest problem is that we have never actually registered for a half and therefore we haven't been 100% committed. Just this weekend we decided that we are going to push our half back until Dec. and run the White Rocks Half Marathon in Dallas. I have heard that it is a good course and hopefully the weather will start cooling down to the point where we can actually enjoy running outside again!!! I will keep you updated on whether or not we actually register!!
Basically, this rant is about how I am a frustrated and scared runner who just needs to take the plunge and sign up for my first half marathon!
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