Tuesday, June 28, 2011

ONE YEAR IN

Wow.  I’ve been a runner for a year!  The Peachtree Road Race expo is Sunday and I have a clear memory of meeting Jeff Galloway at last year’s expo.  I had stopped by his table to buy a book and he was there.  I told him I had just started training for Disney and hoped his book would help.  He was very gracious and signed my book.  I’m hoping to see him again at this year’s expo so that I can thank him for his help in getting me as far as I’ve gone.

I’m still going strong and that makes me very happy.  I don’t have a very long attention span and for me to stick to something this long a period of time is not quite a miracle but it comes pretty close. I think the key is to always be looking for races to train for. I currently have 3 races I’m registered for ranging in distance from 5K to a half marathon. There’s money involved so you can be sure I’ll be at the start line for all of them!

I’ll be sure to post my Peachtree time after I run the race.  While I’d love to run a sub-60 Peachtree I don’t think that’s a very realistic goal so I’ll just shoot for beating my Reagan 10K time of 1:11.

Until next time…

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Running to celebrate what, exactly?

Greetings!  I started this blog to celebrate my love for running.  In order to celebrate my 50th birthday in 2012 I am planning on running the Marine Corps Marathon and I'll be documenting my training here.  I am a Jeff Galloway Run/Walk/Run disciple so you can expect to hear a lot about that training method as time goes on. (Info on Run/Walk/Run can be found at http://www.jeffgalloway.com) I've run 2 half marathons this year using Run/Walk/Run.  The first was the Disney World Half Marathon in January.  My goal was to finish in less than 3 hours and I ran it in 2:51.  A little over 2 months later I ran the Publix Georgia Half Marathon and, using Run/Walk/Run shaved almost 10 minutes off my Disney time!  My third Half Marathon is the Atlanta 13.1 which I will run in October.  Hoping to finish in 2:30 or less.

Until next time...