Moving my running blog

I just want to post the few posts I have from my other blog. There isn't very many enteries but I just found the last site too difficult.

March 9th 2011 : 13.1 Miles

   
    Two years of running and I finally completed my first Half Marathon.  Granted I have been in better shape then my current condition, but sometimes thing just do not always work out exactly as planned.  Last year I had done all the right training only to injure myself two weeks out from my journey.  That injury hit me hard and I gave up running for a time thinking I was just not the right type of person. 
    Long story short, 3 weeks before this marathon, with urging of a friend and after only keep up with a moderate exercise routine for the last several months, I registered for this half marathon.  In a very short time I went from running only a mile or two to running 8 and then jumped from that to the 13.1 miles.
    To say the least it was hard. The first 7 miles I ran at a 10 min/mile pace which is very fast for me. Around the 8th mile, I could no longer hang at that pace and at the turn around there was a strong head wind which forced me to walk.  My foot immediately began hurting when I walked and by the time I realized how much walking had hurt my foot I could no longer run on it.  The result was a torturous last 4 or so miles that I walked much more than ran.  All in all my time was 2 hours and 50 minutes.
    I was disappointed at myself initially, as I felt I had let myself down by walking so much.  But a couple days later now, I have change my prospective and see this as only a starting point from which I can only progress.
    Later this month, I will be participating in the Bataan Death March full marathon held each year at White Sands Missle Range.  This will be a team event.  I am excited to participate in this with two of my best friends Sam and Josh from nursing school.  It should be very interesting if nothing else! Keep a look out for more on that!

One week to Bataan:  March 21, 2011

    Spring Break is over! Today will be my first day back at school.  Training over the last two weeks has gone pretty well. I ran a complete 13.1 miles about 1 week ago. Didn't stop once. Yesterday I was hoping to run 15, but stopped at 10. To date I have not gone over 13 miles and by the end of the week I will be walking/running 26.2 miles. Pretty worried about it, but also excited. My biggest concern at this point is not sustaining an overuse injury.  I look at running as gift each day I get to go out there.    
     My challange this week with school restarting will be again finding a balance between finding time for school and finding time to exercise, while still factoring Ron's school and time with the kids and dogs. Its a juggling act to say the least.  The nice part about it is that in a couple short months 7th semester will be over and I will go into 8th semester which is basically an internship of sorts.