I am training for my first Half this Feb... only 1 month away now. I have been following the Jeff Galloway (modified) training "to finish" but I would like to finish in under 2 hours. I am still a fairly new runner in the past year. In Jeff's plan he has you doing a 14 miler before race day. I have done 13.1 about a month ago just so I know I could do it, and I just did my 14 miler Saturday. I personally would have done it anyway, and just started training longer in advance because I need the confidence that I can do it. Any input would be appreciated on my logs. Thanks! Tim

Thanks for the reply. I do plan on running a couple more long runs. Thanks for the input, I was concerned about my total mileage, but was following the Galloway plan and thought I was doing even better than what he suggested. I am really not concerned with the time nearly as much as it may have come across. The main reason for the hope of getting there was because I was close in training. You nailed my biggest concern on the head, starting out too fast. I tend to do that in shorter races, but those don't hurt nearly as bad as if I do the same thing with 13 miles in front of me. How would you suggest I get more miles, I try to keep myself only running every other day, and 3-6 miles on the two shorter runs for the week. Thanks, Tim

Thanks again, but what is your opinion on running two days in a row? I have heard conflicting opinions on that, and have tried to stay away from it to try and avoid injury.... since I know I am still a really new runner and don't have a great base. Thanks!

Thanks again. I am a creature of habit.... I guess I am going to have to change up my schedule a bit.... and it really is overdue. I, for some time, have run Tue, Thur, Sat, and did weight training on Mon, Wed, Fri. When I have tried to run multiple days in a row I have always tried to add it Wednesday which has always made me go three in a row and over-do it by the time I was done on Thursday. I think I like what you have suggested, I will have to modify and start next week because I have to do my long runs on Saturday, so I will plan on next week doing: Mon: 4 Tue: 4 Wed: off Thur: 5 Fri: off Sat: 9 Sun: off Or something similar. I did a faster run this morning, and probably shouldn't have. I did a 5k at 5k race pace. I am not hurting at all, but I need to remember what I told my neighbors when they asked me to do a 5k race this weekend - nope, I am focussed on my HM now, and need to not run hard, and just put miles in.... funny how I told them that, knowing what I was talking about, but doing just the opposite. Sometimes I confuse myself