My Next Half!!

So it’s official! I have signed up for my next race. I will be running the Rock ‘n Roll Las Vegas half marathon on November 17th! I am also pleased to say that my hubby will be running it with me! It’s his first half marathon! WooHoo! Go babe!

I am really excited to run this next one. For my first race my goal was to finish with a smile on my face. As I’m sure you know I accomplished that! My goal for this race is to run the whole darn thing! I don’t really care what my finish time is as long as it is faster than my last half. I just want to make sure my goals are attainable.

It’s been a pretty quiet summer, I know. I have been focused on a few other things while taking a break from racing. This summer I have been using the new program from Shaun T, Focus T25. I’ve really enjoyed this program. This is the first of Shaun T’s programs that uses weights and I’m really starting to see some definition in my upper body! Running really does nothing for my upper body so it is in desperate need of some help!

I can’t wait to start training for this next half marathon. I have really missed my time in my running shoes. The program I am using this go round is from the same guy, Hal Higdon, but I am doing more of an intermediate program now. You can find the program here. The program calls for a once a week runs at your race pace (the speed in which you want to run the half marathon at). I don’t know if I have mentioned this before but I do not run with any music. I really have learned to enjoy the noise in my head as opposed to music. However, it is really amazing what your body does when you listen to music while running. Your feet follow a beat! I am going to make a playlist to listen to once a week (the day that I’m running at race pace). I really want to see if listen to music strategically picked for a certain speed will help me run faster. It’s worth a shot right?

Ok this is already longer than I had planned so I’ll let you go…

This was on my Runner’s World daily calendar the other day and I really liked it. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.”