I have SOOOOO neglected this blog since school started. What can I say, I can only focus on one thing at a time and family, teaching and running are two things too many already...so teaching has won out over almost everything but family over the past month.
Running has been blah lately. I noticed on my yearly mileage, I am only 25 miles away from hitting 200 miles in 2011. I think I've got that covered in the next month or so. I've scrapped the training schedule that was created for this event and made my own, "no injuries" plan. I am taking a low mileage approach in my half marathon training. My longest run this far has been 6 miles. I am shooting for 7 this weekend, but we will see...
My body keeps telling me to quit. My mind is also headed in that direction. But I'm no quitter. I finished college, grad school and my Rank 1 (a fancy teacher degree above your Masters) in 7 years, have taught kids with severe behavior, academic, emotional and physical problems, given birth, raised a child for 4 years and completed one half marathon already. So surely I can complete 13.1 measly miles of running (or some form of walking/jogging), right?!?
I'm working on staying focused, running a little longer each week and not worrying about speed.
Any advice for this?? Should I increase my long runs by a mile each week?
You're amazing!! YES you can do it! Stick to it even if it means changing your original plan. Teaching and training at the same time is SO hard. Stick to your once a week long runs and keep increasing them by .5 or 1 mile each week. That way you go into the HM with confidence. 7 Mile?! You got that.
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