I am currently watching it snow, as weather.com is telling me the feels like temp outside is -13.... Some days I really hate living in Wyoming, and today is one of them. Friends of ours just got back from spending the winter in AZ yesterday so I am blaming this weather on them. Needless to say that this lovely spring snow storm does not fit into my "fair weather runner" guidelines so I will be running inside ALL week. I'm not very excited about it. Saturday is supposed to be the nicest day at 50 degrees, but there is a chance it will be SUPER windy, which also doesn't fit into my guidelines. I'm hoping that the weather will get its act together so I don't have to run inside for my 4 mile run, but spring in Wyoming is always a crapshoot so we'll see!
Yesterday was my first "official" half marathon training day, so what did I do? I skipped my run womp womp. Yep I'm a big super lameo who still needs to work on getting my butt to the gym every day. In my defense I worked an extra long day at work and it was a super crazy day because of all the changes going on, AND I had to go to the grocery store, so by the time I got home I didn't move from the couch except to go to bed. I was wiped out. Today though come hell or high water (or the 12 inches of snow they were calling for) I'm getting my butt to the gym and I'm going to do my scheduled 3 mile run. As much as I don't like running on the dreadmill I think it is good for me because it makes me keep my pace up. When I run outside I seem to ALWAYS have a really slow 2nd mile and I'm not sure what's up with that! So I guess a week on the treadmill will probably end up helping me out.
So I have been throwing around this idea in my head and I'm not sure about it yet because I don't want to be a quitter, but I think it might really be a good idea so hear me out before you just label me a quitter. I am thinking that I may not run a half marathon this summer... I am thinking that instead of setting that as a goal I should work on just being a better runner, and have fun running all the 5k's and 10k's that I can find. I really wanted to try and get a trail run in this summer, but they all fall on weekends towards the end of my half marathon training so I would have to be doing my long runs, or I would have to do the trail run AND a long run in the same weekend which isn't going to happen. Also I don't think when I am focusing on mileage I would be able to train to do a trail run because high mileage + hills + Shannon does not work out! I am feeling like I am going to burn myself out on running right off the bat, and miss out on all the fun parts of it. Plus I am not feeling like it would be better to get stronger (aka be able to run hills), and work on being faster before I start training for a half.... BUT I live in the artic so if I don't do it now I will have to wait a whole year to start training for one.... Which really makes me feel like a lameo, quitter. I'm not rally sure what I am going to do. I know I still want to work on building my mileage, so I am going to stay on track with my training program till at least the 6 mile week (6 weeks), and then I will have to decide if I want to keep training for the half, or just do 5ks and 10ks this summer and work on being a better runner. What do you think?
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