I ran 4.5 miles today, grudgingly. I was tired and the temperature was chilly, so I whined while jogging. But I did it. And tomorrow is another 4.5 miles (which has to get done early in the afternoon so that I have time to shower and get prettier for date #2 with the engineer).
After the Houston race, I'm going to incorporate speed work in my weekly runs to get me back to where I was over a year ago. If things work out with the engineer, I'm going to have him coach me - he ran track and field at West Point, and was uber-fast - fast enough to win lots of Houston 10ks and 5ks in the 1990s, and even today finishes full marathons in less than 4 hours. He did the Uptown Turkey Trot 5k in 21 minutes.
I want to finish the Marine Corps half in 2.5 hours, which will cut 20 minutes off of my best half-marathon time. I know I can do it, because I got to the halfway point of the Nashville Marathon in 2.5 hours. I just need to work on my speed. And I'll have plenty of time to do it between January and May.
Cheers!
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