Day 68

I didn't realize it had been almost two weeks since I'd blogged until today when my mom asked me how running was going. I've been so incredibly busy with life that blogging just hasn't been a priority. My grandparents visited last weekend, my best friend will have a baby any day now, my cat had surgery this week and work has been busier this week than it has been in the past three months. I'm drained. However, I still think my blog is an important part of this experience so tonight I'm carving out some time to digress.

I've run two eight mile and two ten mile training runs in the past month. I can't believe how far I've come in just two and a half months of training. I'll run my longest training run of 12 miles tomorrow. In fact I just finished mapping out my course on one of my favorite websites, www.mapmyrun.com. All of my training runs are archived on the site so it will be another neat way to look back on what I've been able to accomplish during this experience.

It's hard to believe my half marathon is only 2 weeks from this Sunday. I signed up for a 5k on September 20th so I can prepare for the racing experience. I'm really looking forward to it. It will be a good way to mentally prepare for the race on the 27th. Although, I know racing with a few hundred people on the 20th will be a totally different feeling than racing with 14,000 people in the half marathon.

I've already starting thinking about what my goals will be after the race. I've focused on my goal of finishing a half marathon for so many weeks that I have a feeling it will be hard for me to not have something to work toward anymore. I know I want to keep running after this is done, maybe I'll run another half marathon, maybe I'll just stick to 10k races for a while. We'll see.