Well lately I've been completely ignoring my blogging responsibilities (sorry to my many, many readers ;)
Instead, I have started triaining for my first half marathon. There are a couple of training regiments that I've peeked at, but I think it's going to end up being much more of a personalized schedule - volleyball tournaments have to fit in somewhere. They all basically involve 3 running days a week, 2 days of which are storter (3-4 mi) runs and one day for a long run. The other 4 days are rest days, and can optionally be cross training days. Vball fits in perfectly as cross training, because playing (especially in the sand) all day is a pretty good workout.
That's a picture of my new running shoes (bright yellow, and awesome) - they successfully completed round one of being broken in last night... and when you can take brand new shoes for seven miles and only stop because the sun goes down, you know they're good. Mizuno, you're the man.
My first ever half marathon will be the City of Oaks half mar in Raleigh on November 2. The course runs right through downtown and this particular race has evidently become quite popular in the last few years; I will be one of thousands of athletes competing. I'm obviously not going to win this thing, but I have a much more modest (and realistic) goal - to finish.
I'm not sure how I have the motivation to do this, but already I feel great about the possibility. It's one of those things that I just feel like I have to do, for me, and that I really want to do.
Then it will be on to bigger and better things. Only ten percent of people ever complete a marathon.
I want to be in that ten percent.
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