It's Febuary!

Yay Febuary! Febuary means that the average temperatures are finally going up, not down so hopefully by the end of the month or early next month I can run outside.

Yesterday I ran 2.75 miles and walked 2, for a total of 4.75 miles in 1 hour, 3 minutes. It was the longest I've gone so I was excited about that. On top of that, I was able to stay at 5.5. mph the whole time I ran. I've been slowing down as I get tired so it was exciting to be able to keep it the same speed (although I do realize that 5.5 mph is not overly fast haha).

Today I walked 3.5 miles. Tomorrow I'm going to try to go to run 3 miles, then Thurday I'll have a rest day, Friday I'm meeting with my trainer, and Saturday I'll run again.


Then on Sunday I'm going to start the 12-week training program! It's originally set up as a Monday-Sunday schedule thinking that followers will run their half on a Sunday, but ours is on Saturday so I'm moving everything back by one day and making the plan Sunday-Saturday. I think I should be able to do the mileage on the schedule, since for the first couple weeks I'm mostly running 2.5-3 miles at a time with a couple of 4 mile runs that will be a challenge for sure, but I'm optimistic I can handle it. Then by the time I get to the 5+ mile runs I hope it'll be warm enough to run outside. It's exciting and a bit scary to know that we're just a little over 12 weeks away from the race!