13.1 again.

my next big race is coming up in just over 2 weeks. i hope i am ready. i am very nervous for this venture, which sort of suprises me. i have not blogged much at all about it, probably b/c i am feeling a bit nervous.

last year in my training, i extended my plan longer than the 12 weeks it called for, mine was more like 16, with room to jostle around runs and distances. this year, i really didn't start til early september for a race the last week of october, to really start with the training runs. plus last year, i had trained during the summer for a 10 miler. this past summer, i just tried to do what i could during the week, and on weekends i tried to do a longer run. maybe i am nervous b/c of the shorter time training, although my distances have been fine, and my weeks full of runs, more so than the plan i did last year, as that was more spread out, and my shorter runs have been on "schedule", so i keep telling myself my legs have been busy, but still, i am a worrier. it may be all mental since last year it was months, this year it's been more of weeks and in my head the difference of those seems huge. i have also had some foot issues and some achiness lately, which worries me. it could be from the training, but those kinds of things always just give me a bit of nerves. i am sure i will be fine. we'll see on october 24th!

i am a bit excited though, my mom and i are turning it into a girls trip. we'll drive to myrtle beach for the weekend, then hopefully head up to virginia for a few days in williamsburg. i have wanted to go there in the fall for over 10 years, and hopefully that will happen!

so between now and october 24, i need to try to calm these nerves down, and continue to find the motivation to run. this week has been a rough one for that, and i have slacked off, which isn't the greatest idea a couple of weeks before the big event. for over a week, it has been very chilly, wet, dreary, and RAINY! which makes me depressed, more worried, down and out, and completely unmotivated. my last long run was 12, well, i think it ended up more like 10 1/2 to 11 miles in the rain. it was disney almost all over again. it went well, and i felt good, considering! except i was definitely wetter (read drenched) this time, but warmer (read a good 30 degrees warmer) than disney was! i hope it's not like that race day this time (flukey weather). i'd like my 2nd half marathon to be cool, good running weather, and dry! and i hope to have a new pr!

and i keep going back and forth over the idea of 26.2 some day. which of course would be disney. my feelings on that mileage change by the hour. :)