Another week down! This was a really great week of running for me – the amazing weather definitely contributed to that.
My schedule this week was as follows:

Monday: (Rest)
Tuesday: (5 miles at Easy Pace)
During my PHYE Running for Fitness class we did an indoor run on the treadmill/indoor track, completely wasting the beautiful weather! What a shame. But the treadmill wasn’t as bad as I thought, and I got my fill of the outdoors running to the gym for class and back.
5.12 miles – 48 minutes – 9:22 pace
Wednesday: 6 miles …

It has begun! I am 7 runs into my 21-week training schedule, with 50 miles knocked out so far. This weekend I have a 10 miler and a 6 miler scheduled, I’ll probably do the 10 miler solo on the roads on Saturday and then join the CTRC for the Sunday run. I’m very excited because the Sunday run has been pushed back to 9am from 8am, so I get to sleep in for an extra hour!
I’ll be running a half marathon on the 14th of November at Walnut Creek …

I did it! I registered for the National Marathon. On March 20th I will be running with 12,000 other marathoners and half marathoners, hopefully crossing the finish line in one piece. I’ve got a lot to learn about marathoning in the meantime, which is why it’s a good thing that I have six months to learn all I can.
I’ll be using this training plan from Runners World, and I think I’m going to aim for an average of 10:00 miles (4:22 marathon). But I’ll be happy just to finish :) …