New Goal!

I have decided to enter the Thanksgiving Point half marathon!

It will be held April 30th.  That gives me two and a half months to train.  I had intended to enter until I pulled my Achilles tendon.  I have had a hard time recovering from that, but today for the first time I felt that I had a shot at it again.  I did a 90 minute workout on a treadmill this evening and managed to go 7 miles in that time.  That would make a 3 hour half marathon (13.1 mi.) if I could maintain that speed the whole time (which is unrealistic at this time).  I need to improve on that, but it does not seem insurmountable. 

You see, the marathon organizers have posted on their web site that the race route would be maintained (police directing traffic, water stations manned, etc.) for 3 hours from the start of the race.  That means that I have to make sure I can finish the race within that time frame.  With 2 1/2 months of training, I am sure I can do that.  I have no intention of trying to win anything... I am not unrealistic about this.  I am still in really bad shape.

But it would feel really great to accomplish this, it is on my bucket list after all!