Training for UWI 1/2 starts now....

This week I have officially committed myself to  training consistently for UWI half marathon on November 2nd. I have a training programme that I'm going to try to follow as closely as possible and I am excited to see how things will turn out on race day. Over the past couple weeks I have been getting in as much as 20 - 24 miles a week and though for some this may not be much milage, I am happy about it because I've been able to balance my schedule and get those runs in at all costs.

When I look back and reflect on the last six months, I continue to surprise myself over and over again. I had always been intrigued by runners who had the heart to run such long distances but I had never dreamed that I would try it myself. If anyone had asked me last year if I would be running half marathons now and thinking about doing a full length marathon next year, I would have laughed. Given my fitness level then, I would have thought it impossible for me to reach that stage.

So  here I am now, all excited about running; curious as to how far I could push myself; trying to build not just physical but mental endurance as well. Unlike all the other workouts I've done in the past, running takes the most out of me physically and mentally and I love the challenge.

For the UWI 1/2, I have not set a time in which I would like to finish because I would like to be preoccupied with doing my best rather than racing the clock. I think that I would run a better race if I look at it that way.  I'm also going to work on building that mental endurance so that I could have the courage to bear the pain, especially in the last couple miles of the race. I also want to not sustain any injuries while training for this race. Now I know that that may be wishful thinking but I really don't want to have another experience like the one I had at Bulter 20K. I'll do what I have to do to avoid that at all costs.

So I'll keep you folks posted on how my training goes. It includes tempo runs and repeats along with some long runs and if I stick with it, my longest run would be 16 miles before the half marathon in November. This should make running 13.1 miles alot easier. Stay tuned...

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