10k or HM? (Read 924 times)

DO IT, you know you wanna... Personally, I need the committment to motivate me...sign up for the HM and go for it! You can do it! Woot! Lynn B

The HM distance is a typical hiking distance for me -.

Well, geez - then this is a no-brainer. Of course you should do the half. Not everybody out there can walk 13 miles, you know. Or even 1 mile. Or even to the mailbox. For what it's worth, when I ran my prior marathon PR, I had basically no training. One 10-mile run, and one 13-mile run. Never ran further. But by chance I'd picked up one of Galloway's books shortly before the race, so I figured I'd walk a minute a mile and maybe survive. The result was 10 minutes FASTER than my first marathon - and I ran every step of that one. And yes, I've told that story before. Your goals for your now-definite half marathon should be: 1) have fun, 2) finish, 3) meet a time goal. In that order. And maybe skip the last one. But if you do decide to go for time, don't think that walking necessarily slows you down. My CURRENT best time in my regular 7-mile run came from an easy run where I was walking a minute or two per mile. It was a 3:00 minute PR, in fact. I had several slower runs at the same distance with no walking. Besides, if you make walking a part of your strategy rather than something to avoid, you may find yourself walking less than you would have otherwise. For me, I find that when I schedule walk breaks on tough days, I often run right through them anyway. Just do whatever feels best, is most enjoyable ... and fastest. What was your 5-k time?

HM HM HM HM HM. Mostly because I'm shooting for it too. Same race and everything! Hah.

My husband, btw, is happy with this new obsession, though he thinks I've lost it.

Heh...sounds like our hubbies are in the same boat. Of course, I've long been happy with my DH's cycling obsession, so it's only fair he reciprocate. And my sport will still always be cheaper than his...I notice he's not really encouraging me to look at road bikes for myself, anymore (not that I'd really have time--running certainly takes up what spare kid-free time I do have). k

I also lost 2.5 stone (35.5 lbs) between August and September which helped with the race times but i wouldn't recommend that as a training strategy. Nevertheless I think this HM is well within your reach!

well, I've printed out the HM training plan, and right on the cover of my free copy of Her Sports from my race this weekend was a teaser talking about Galloway's HM training program....I think it's the universe trying ot tell me something BTW what the heck happened that caused you to drop that much weight in a pair of months! that's quite a lot!!