This morning I got up and decided it was time to start running again. I have noticed that if I am not working towards a next race, I won't run. And going to the gym for classes or even the elliptical is no replacement for running outside. I went to McKinley Park about .5 miles from my apartment. I ran 3 loops around the park (each a mile), and then back to my apartment. Mapmyrun.com figured that the run was 4.3 miles long. It took me and hour and six minutes to run it.
I was planning on doing the Urban Cow Half Marathon on October 2nd, but had gotten off track from training for that. A half marathon is 13.1 miles. I definitely need to get to running on a regular basis to work up to getting through 13.1 miles. I'm thinking that if I add a half mile every week or something I can build up to making it through that long of a run. If I do that I will be running 9.5 miles the week before the half marathon.... Yikes! This is a big undertaking for someone in January never thought of running anywhere.
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