determined, or at least trying to be.

As we enter 2014, I have one not so distant goal ahead of me.  The Princess Half Marathon!!  Yes, it's my 4th year in a row participating, and this year it's a challenge!  I am signed up to participate in the Glass Slipper Challenge!  The Glass Slipper consists of 2 races; the inaugural Enchanted 10k on Saturday, and the Princess Half Marathon on Sunday.  By participating in the challenge, you not only get a medal for each of those races, you recieve a glass slipper medal too!  I am excited, I am all about the prizes!

So, my plan was to keep up with decent training between the Wine and Dine Half in November, until this Challenge, but I may have slacked off.  Between work, and the holidays, running hit the back burner.  I had a few bouts of vertigo which derailed me, as well as pure exhaustion, plus the holidays!  So......from now until late February, I am determined to try to do as much as I can to prepare myself.  Warning friends and family:  weekends will be dedicated to long runs.  Getting in training runs will prevail.  All things will have to revolve around them.  

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 My life will revolve around long runs, especially on the weekends, as well as trying my best to get in some shorter training runs during the week.  I work a very physical job, as well as just mentally/emotionally tiring sometimes, so it can be hard to get home and run on the treadmill, but I will do my best!  (I can't get up early and run, it just isn't happening before work!).  I also need to get in some back to back runs on the weekend, hence my warning!  I am hoping to have time goals for the race, but that will come in due time if I am able to accomplish them.  Being winter, I am resorting to the treadmill (as well as it is too dark to run outside when I get home), because I am a cold weather wimp and just cannot handle the cold!  It hurts me to my bones, that crazy cold air!  Plus, if there is snow and ice on the ground, I worry about falling, and it hurts my knees and ankles too much.  So I have lots of dates ahead with my treadmill, I did it last year, and can do it again this year!  (Last year I ran 14 miles on that thing!  Proud moment!).  I already know I am going to be giving myself pep talks to get the runs in, motivation is hard to find at times, but it's my goal to really make training a priority, more so than I did for Wine and Dine and the Jingle Jungle 5k.  I know I can do it after those 2 races (on the same day) with little to no minimal training.  This time, I want to have bigger goals.

So here we go, on the road to the Glass Slipper!