I’m so proud of myself. I ran 12 miles today. I was planning something over 10, like 11, in preparation for my 1/2 marathon in LESS THAN TWO WEEKS!

And once I go over 9 miles, it started hurting. I’d run a 10-mile race back in the day and didn’t train over that (so 10 was my tops). I’d run 9 miles recently, but by 9 miles today I had some knee pain and my ankles started to hurt.

After 10 miles, even though I had toe blisters, and my ankles and knees hurt, it was nice out, and I felt great, having caught a 3rd wind of sorts, and I kept going. I knew I’d have to go far out so I wasn’t tempted to just stop and go home, and I didn’t even look at my Garmin, just enjoyed the music, and pushed myself to finish.

At times it felt other-worldly, but it wasn’t that bad. And now I’m over that mental hurdle (10+ miles). Yay.

I’m so happy. I stretched a lot, and it may hurt tomorrow, but I am so proud. It feels good.

Let’s hope I keep running every other day, and do one more long-ish one, before the race, and I should be all set !

Yes, I’m a Little Scared for My 1/2 Marathon Training, but one of the reasons I signed up for it was so I would HAVE to run when school started.

Lately My 1/2 Marathon Training“>my pictures have been pretty exciting, and at the same time not exactly pretty. Ha. It’s all good, though, I can laugh at and with myself.

If I couldn’t, I’d have no hope of being a comedian, and that hope always makes me laugh.

These worries shared, I think it’ll be very interesting and a wonderful journey to balance running and school and planning. Maybe I’ll ease up a little on procrastinating and dive into more of a schedule?!?!?!

Woh. Who knows? Anything is possible!

Oh the dreaded stretching. I could say a lot about it, but I found the perfect thing that says everything I’d want to instead. I do not like stretching, and as they put it: “There’s an endless number of runners who seem perfectly able to squeeze in many hours of running every week but who just don’t seem to have the time to stretch for five or ten minutes before and after.” Agreed!

So this CoolRunning site writes a little about the importance of stretching and then gives 12 great stretches for runners.

I did almost all of them, but I need to get a towel or a band for doing some better stretches. All I know is if I don’t stretch I will not make it to the half marathon!

Oh boy. I’m going to chronicle this gem (my journey through runsanity and back) in a new section of my blog: Personal Running Makeover. Currently I’m recovering from my first run since the decision, so I’ll have to come back to this. Kinda weak sauce, but it’s okay- this is the beginning of a wonderful thing. I’m doing it for raising awareness to drug addiction, and for getting a smokin’ hot bod ha!