Next Race, and Wow, I Won't Shut Up!

So Dave found an event for us to train toward early next year: the half marathon at Austin Marathon & Half on Valentine's Day.

Awwww! Sweet!


[a short romantic dialogue, race-day, mile 12...


Shan: Lookin' good, babe! *sweat, sweat*

Dave: You, too, babe! *pant, pant*

Shan: Oh, crap, is that a hill?!

Both: *barf, barf*


...and scene.]


This time around, we're using Hal Higdon's intermediate training plan. Trip suggested his beginner plan for our first event; the intermediate aims to build on your existing running base to improve performance. (Ooooo, fitness talk!) We're starting at week 4, since we only have 9 weeks to Austin. So I printed it out (after putting it in my own spreadsheet...obviously...) and posted it on the microwave.

Did 3.5 miles from work to home this afternoon, to get things back on track.

Runner's World (hard-copy) has a feature article this month called Your Best Year (or similar) that lays out a plan to run 6 or 7 different types of events in 2010, from track miles to trail runs to a marathon. The variety is VERY APPEALING.

Do you guys have any fitness-related events approaching? How do you feel going in?

Almost forgot: this is Daily Pie's 1,000th post. Crazy. I'm telling you, people who know me in real life would never guess I have that much to say. Probably 'cause I blab it all here. Oops.

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