Half Marathon Training!

So earlier today I signed up for the Pittsburgh Half Marathon, which is on May 6th.  I will post other things on the blog as well but I'm going to use it for some accountability and start tracking my training.  It's a big goal and I'd really like to do it, even though it's pretty scary to think about running 13.1 miles all at once!

So here goes.  I have more weeks before the half marathon than are in the plan so Colleen helped me double up on some weeks.  It's a plan that will get me to FINISH.  That's my goal.  Just to do it.  Depending on how that goes, we'll see if I run one again and make an actual time goal.

Week 1 

Plan miles: 11 miles running plus some cross/strength training.
Actual miles: 16.116 miles this week  in 2:47:27 and no cross/strength training

Plan long run: 4 miles
Actual long run: 4.27 miles in 47:55 (with a break because I ran the first 3.04 miles with 2 friends and then ran the rest myself)

I have a feeling that I'm going to be bad at the cross/strength training.  My long run was supposed to be 4 miles, and my long run was 4.27 miles.  I actually had two 4+ mile workouts this week, though, and one was on the treadmill.

It's probably going to be hard to keep up the mileage with our busy schedule.  That's part of the reason I'm going to report it here.