My dear. I've realized it's been almost a full month without a blog post. It's not that I'm tired or bored of blogging...but I feel like not much has been going on that's blog worthy. But, on this snowy Monday morning (blast!) I feel like there is something to talk about.
This is actually week two of training for a sub/2 hour half marathon. My goal race is the LI Half on May 1st. That's about a 7 minute PR. Which doesn't sound like a lot, but sometimes it does. So, knowing I would have to step up my game a million notches, I decided to ask the one and only Speed Sasquatch to help me train for it. I've seen my friends make some amazing progress under his training plans, and I knew he'd be able to keep me motivated and push me when I needed it. That being said, I was also scared he was going to kick my ass and I'd be way in over my head.
The first week of training went pretty well, if I do say so myself. A successful fartlek run (teehee) a 4 mile tempo run just a few seconds short of my PR last year, and a sub 9:30 10K. Who is this girl? The 10k is my least favorite distance...and I haven't run anything sub 9:30 (i think) since a 5k last June. And it was a progressive run, my first mile in the 9:40's, my last mile in the low 9:00's. I really, really hope this is just the beginning of things to come, because to reach a 2 hour half I'm going to have to find a lot of that girl.
This is actually week two of training for a sub/2 hour half marathon. My goal race is the LI Half on May 1st. That's about a 7 minute PR. Which doesn't sound like a lot, but sometimes it does. So, knowing I would have to step up my game a million notches, I decided to ask the one and only Speed Sasquatch to help me train for it. I've seen my friends make some amazing progress under his training plans, and I knew he'd be able to keep me motivated and push me when I needed it. That being said, I was also scared he was going to kick my ass and I'd be way in over my head.
The first week of training went pretty well, if I do say so myself. A successful fartlek run (teehee) a 4 mile tempo run just a few seconds short of my PR last year, and a sub 9:30 10K. Who is this girl? The 10k is my least favorite distance...and I haven't run anything sub 9:30 (i think) since a 5k last June. And it was a progressive run, my first mile in the 9:40's, my last mile in the low 9:00's. I really, really hope this is just the beginning of things to come, because to reach a 2 hour half I'm going to have to find a lot of that girl.
