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!
Yes you can do it!
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