While both of them make me nervous, the latter positively terrifies me. My first race is coming up in March - the Bearathon. Go Baylor! It's full of hills, so I don't know how well I will be prepared for the hills. For now, though, I'm focusing on running, resting and strength training.
I decided to use Hal Higdon's Novice 2 Half-Marathon training schedule, and tweak it just a bit for my own needs. I decided on this for several reasons.
1. The novice 2 most closely resembles what I'm already doing on my runs throughout the week.
I chose not to do the intermediate because I took quite a long break from running throughout my miscarriage, and I'm just not back to where I was. Although the intermediate looks like the way I used to run, it's not how I'm running right now. And I want to avoid injury.
2. I only have 9 weeks to get ready, so I thought it best to go the safer route with novice 2 instead of the intermediate.
3. I tweaked the HHN2 program, because I needed to rearrange a few days to match my schedule and because I like to be more active throughout the week. I normally run this much, so I didn't want to back up and run less.
I took his training plan and made a nifty plan just for me to put on my mirror each morning and cross off as I follow the plan. While I didn't create this plan, I prettied it up for me. Yea!
I was researching running plans and reading through Runner's World magazine while sitting at gymnastics today, and you know what? I got absolutely excited about running this upcoming race. I got excited about training. I got excited about the work.
You know what, though? It's been super hard to get out of bed lately. So hopefully that will improve or my resolve will strengthen, and I will push through to do it anyway.
Happy running!
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