Against the advice of my saner self, i have signed up for another half marathon in November. The OBX Marathon and Half Marathon will take place on Sunday, November 8, and i will be there. 12 weeks of training starts today. Along the way, i will also compete in the American Tobacco Trail 10-miler.
To be honest, i’m not sure how enthusiastic i am. I initially signed up for this half marathon because there was a group of my bridge buddies who were all planning to do it. We were going to rent a house for the weekend and bring the families and cheer each other on. I was psyched, and signed up immediately. Unfortunately, they are now all doing a golf weekend together that same weekend and can’t make it.
So, i’m going it alone. I suppose i need to reserve a hotel room for myself since there be no big beach house rental. Sigh. I’m not really bitter about it. I’m just staring down the barrel of a long training regimen and am having a hard time finding the motivation that caused me to sign up in the first place. I seem to remember telling myself i would never have to do another half…
Snap out of it, self.
You can do this.
As i did for the 15K i ran in the spring, i am posting my training schedule. This will mostly be a way to hold myself accountable, not because i think anyone truly cares. I may also post a weekly log of how the workouts went that week, we’ll see how it goes.