Day 6, 3 Miler

Just a quick post today about how I’m doing with my fitness plans.

I’m actually looking at the potential of running a half marathon in January. I haven’t signed up for anything yet, but I’m getting close. I want to see how my long run goes tomorrow and decide after that. Tomorrow I’ve planned a 5 miler, but if I’m going to get ready for a half marathon in January, I have to start upping my long run mileage each week.

The Carlsbad Half Marthon is on January 15th so that’s about 10 weeks away. Running 5 miles this week, gives me 9 long runs after tomorrow to go from 5 miles up to 12–13. Definitely doable, and considering I did my first marathon, from nothing, in 16 weeks, I could have easily done it when I was running years ago. Now that I’m older…I need to make sure I’m careful and safe. I don’t want to overdo it.

In any case, I ran 3 miles today. It was good and I was able to get out there early enough that the heat didn’t have too dramatic an effect. But I did take it slow…12:46 min/mile pace.