Category Archives: Half Marathon

It’s been a gorgeous weekend over here!  Yesterday especially.

Perfect weather for taking my long run outside.  The sun was shining, the birds were chirping and I was happy.

Oh, excuse me, I mean runS.

Yup, I totally made that word plural.

I ended up doing my 5 miles on Saturday, and then doing it again on Sunday.

Because I’m cool like that.

I’m happy to say that they both went great!

I ran to the track, around the track a few times, and then back home.

My neighborhood is pretty hilly, so I got to work on those little devils a little bit which was good.

On Saturday, I ran them in 1 hour, 1 minute and 30 seconds.

I was super happy with this – a 12 minute mile pace with some hills is good for me!

When I get a little bummed about how slow I am right now, I like to remind myself:

When I ran it again today, I shaved 2 minutes off and finished in 59 minutes, 30 seconds.

Woo!

My leggies are feeling  pretty sore now, but I’m ok with that.  Tomorrow is my rest day.

I’m sure you’re wondering what “moleskinny” is.

Welp, if you were to google that word you would get a bunch of pictures of day planners….what?

In actuality, I’m talking about this:

I googled the problem I was having with the insides of my feet rubbing when I ran, and someone suggested Moleskin.

On Saturday, I put some on and I was good until mile 3, when they apparently moved (I guess because I was sweating a lot).

I was only slightly uncomfortable for the next two miles, but when I got home and took off my shoes and socks I noticed that I now had nice blisters where the moleskin was.

So today, I applied the moleskin and also used athletic tape to secure it to my feet.  This worked a lot better.  I’m hoping this will be my permanent solution.

Sure, it’s going to be a pain to do this every time I run.

There is another alternative that was suggested, which was tying my shoes tighter.

Unfortunately, I recently stopped tying my shoes so tight because it was making my middle toes go numb (which is extremely uncomfortable).

Oh, me.

Can’t I just be normal?

Holla.

Fuck it – I’ll just keep taping my feet.

 

Oh, hi there friends.

Remember me?

It’s been almost two months since I’ve blogged.  The holidays were nuts (as expected), and on top of that I was sick for a good three weeks.

You’re probably thinking that the title of this post is referring to the lack of blogging.

Wrong.

Remember how I said that a co-worker and I signed up for the NYC Half Marathon?

Well, we got in.

Don’t get me wrong, I am so excited and grateful that we were chosen (participants are chosen by lottery).

The problem is that I was sick for a few weeks and had not been keeping up with my running.

And now I have two months to go from being able to run 4 miles, to being able to run 13.1 miles.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!

While researching the NYC Half, we also found out that around 5 miles of the run is through Central Park, and is extremely hilly.

Double Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!

Needless to say, I will need to stick to a pretty strict training schedule if I’m going to make the 3-hour time limit.

Hopefully they won’t drive by and scoop me up before I’m able to finish.

And if I do get picked up, I pray the vehicle doesn’t look like this:

Creeptastic.

Anyway – here is this week’s schedule:

W – 3 miles

H – 3 miles

F – 3 miles

S – 5 miles

After freaking out about the hills and googling our faces off, we found a treadmill hill workout.  I made the following my 3-miler yesterday:

	Hills Brooooooo
Time	Speed	Incline
0:00-5:00	5	1
5:00-8:00	6.5	1
8:00-13:00	6	3
13:00-15:00	6.5	1
15:00-18:00	6	4
18:00-20:00	6.5	1
20:00-23:00	6	5
23:00-25:00	6.5	1
25:00-28:00	6	3
28:00-30:00	6.5	1
30:00-33:00	6	5
33:00-38:00	5	1

Yes, that says “Hills Broooooo”.

I could tell by looking at this that it would be incredibly difficult, so I decided going in that I would bump a lot of the speeds down to 5′s and 5.5′s.

(Sidenote: can you “bump” a speed down?  Or should I be using a different word there?  Ehhh, whatever.)

Even doing this, however, I found myself having to walk a bunch of times.

Holy balls.

PS I find it a little disappointing that I googled “balls” and not one actual pair of male balls came up in the first few pages.

Not that I really wanted to see a pair of balls.

Balls are gross.

I’m just surprised at the lack of perverted people out there.

The husband suggested I photoshop a pair of balls with a halo over them (for my holy balls comment).

It’s a great idea.

I’m lazy.

Visualize it yourself.

OK enough ball talk.  Back to hill talk.

I’ve decided to incorporate hill intervals into two of my four runs each week leading up to the half.  I really hope this helps!

It better help.

Or I’m screwed.

The title of this photo was “Mario Screwed”.  Haaaaa.

Welp, I’m going to go google something else now.

I just came back from my 3 mile run today, and the insides of my feet are killing me.

This was supposed to be my nice easy run, and instead it was torturous, and I ended up walking for a full mile.

It hurt so much I honestly didn’t even want to walk.  I just wanted to stop.

I swear one day soon I’ll be able to run without any ailments.