saturday's long run, 02-28-09
13.1 miles (the half-marathon course)
1:24:58!

+1.5 mile warm up and 1.5 mile cool down

the best part about that is that i ran negative splits (second half faster than the first). that's exactly what i want to do in the race, because i can bust it out the second half instead of struggling to hold on. i really didn't start to tire until around mile 8, and my times didnt slip until about the last mile. flippin a!

i definitely cant complain about being 4:30 off my PR two weeks into my training and with two months of hard training left to go. i want to shatter 1:20. i want to slay the competition. kill! kill! kill!

the time is not 10:57, its NOW!

in other stuff, im still contemplating running the 3-miler tomorrow in Pickerington for training. Part of the reason i did a long run today is I feel like just running a 5k is somehow cheating my training...like it's not hard enough. part of me even wants to do the 15-miler tomorrow and make it a 30 mile weekend :)
but i'll probably just hold off and do a 5k next weekend. we shall seeeeeeee.