Welcome

Welcome to my Running Blog!

A few things of note:

1) The exercise ticker to the right. While blogstalking I saw this on another blog and decided to incorporate it. You'll notice the total # of miles is 134.1. I got this number from the book, "The Non-Runner's Marathon Trainer." The book is actually a 16 week full marathon training course, but seeing as I only have 7 weeks I have simply added up all the miles up to week seven. The book lays out how many miles to run each week which includes two "short" runs, one "medium" run, and one "long" run per week. They have found that running just these four times per week is just as effective in training as running six times per week, which is GREAT news if you ask me.

This week I will run two 3 mile runs, one 4 miler, and one 5 miler. The week of the marathon it will be two 4 milers, one 6 miler, and the half marathon (13.1 miles). So the midweek runs don't get too much longer, but the weekend run increases by at least a mile each week. Make sense?

2) My posts will mostly look the same, as this blog is mostly just a log of my runs. Just how many miles I ran that day, how hard I felt I had to work for them (RPE), and anything I feel like I want to share/remember about the run that day.

3) If anyone is interested in joining in, I think it would be a blast to do the long runs together on Saturdays. I was even thinking of going up to Eden and starting at the startline for the half and then running the route for the allotted miles.

4) I welcome all comments, suggestions, and encouragement!