I tell them all the work is done and regardless of how it has gone, the key thing is to relax and realize that the months of training are more important than the last two weeks, so relaxing and letting that training come to fruition is most important. As Coach Dellinger used to say, "the hay is in the barn!"

- Coach Salazar

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Week 1 - Here We Go!

Ok, so I think I'm going to start a blog to track my 8 week half marathon progress. Why? Because I think my boyfriend/mother/friends/facebook friends are tired of hearing me talk about my running progress. And I have to talk to keep myself motivated. And I kind of miss having a blog. So there.

For those who don't know, I'm an asthmatic/formerly fat kid with lots of excuses as to why I "couldn't" exercise as a child. In January of 2009, I went to a new doctor that wasn't my best friend's dad (love ya Richard :)). I told him I was running inside, on the treadmill. "Why can't you run outside?" he queried. "Oh, because I'm an asthmatic." I replied. "Bull shit, here's an inhaler, get your ass out there and run."

Well ok then.

Since then, I've completed five 5k races, I run with Pacers Fun Runs every Tuesday, and have *gasp* signed up for the Woodrow Wilson Bridge Half-Marathon on 2 October. And thus we get to the point of this blog.

8 weeks from today, I will be running 13.1 miles from Mount Vernon to National Harbor. To date, the longest I've ever run was 7 miles in preparation for a 10K the day before my 25th birthday (jerks changed it to a 5k due to "high humidity"). So we've got some work to do.

We can do it!

Half-Whit ho!

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