Uh oh.

Last Saturday, I was floating around my parent’s pool reading a book, enjoying the long weekend. My mom says to me “Hey are you doing the Hartford Marathon this year? I just started my more serious training for the half, the race is in 14 weeks.”

Oh no. I thought I still had plenty of time before I needed to start being more serious about a training program. October is a lot closer than I thought. I still plan to run the race this year and try for a decent time. I think with some smart but intense training I can run at a pace that I can be proud of after I am done; I have been running regularly still, just not an organized training schedule.  Last year having people congratulate me for running a marathon when I was not happy at all with the results (ran injured) was not pleasant - I need to return to Hartford and run a better race.

So in the future you should see me start posting on here again as I train. I will probably post my plan for weekend long runs a few days before in case anyone wants to join me for any parts of them.