Wednesday, June 13, 2012

13.1 miles

Since I can remember, I've always wanted to run a marathon. I mean, its just kinda plain bad ass to run 26.2 miles! plus, can we talk about the will power to make yourself run that many miles?! Its absolutely crazy. And since I'm not quite crazy enough (yet) to do a full marathon. I'm starting to train for my first half with the thought that if I don't die doing a half, I can do a full marathon!

totally need this shirt while I run!

I've never been a big long distance runner so this will be interesting for me. I think the farthest i've ever ran was 6 miles so i'll have to double that plus a little to get to my half marathon finish line. Normally, I have time goals I want to meet if I am doing a race, but for this half, I just want to finish and do the best I can! So far, I'm on week two of my schedule and I've only missed one work out and that was because I was extremely hung over and was only awake for 5 hours of my day. can we say c-l-a-s-s-y? I ran 4 miles on Sunday and I felt pretty good for most of it, except for at almost mile 2, I was on a path and there was apparently bees. And of course my luck, they followed poor Bella and I for the rest of the 2 miles home. I thought I could out smart the bees and run as fast as I could and they would get lost in my dust...yea that did not happen. They happily floated around Bella and I as if my speed was no big deal. I was sprinting so hard that I started gagging and had to walk while feeling like at any moment I was going to get stung. Not to mention, I probably looked like a crazy person to anyone driving by. I was swatting, flinching, sprinting/walking, tripping over myself and bella while cars were driving by. Yikes!

Anyways, upon further ado, here is my training schedule:


I made some adjustments for when I will be in Vegas and I know I'll make a couple more adjustments along the way. Its just something for me to work off of and that I have a "schedule".

and I just found this plain funny. This is much more "me" than running a half marathon. What can I say? I love me some cupcakes!!!


Hugs & Luvs,

Nicki

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