Put me in Coach, I’m ready to run!
The last time I ran a Boston qualifying time was in 1986. I’ll save you the calculation – that’s 34 years ago! A lot has happened in those 34 years, but I thought it would be fun to look back at that year and see how I set up my training. If it worked back then, why not give it another go!
I ran one half-marathon in the Spring of 1986 – it was the Lake County Half-Marathon and it was in April. I remember it was the weekend we changed our clocks for daylight savings, because we got 1 less hour of sleep that night.
Searching for upcoming spring races in North Carolina, I found a half-marathon March 27, 2021 that hasn’t yet been cancelled. The Sunset Beach Half-Marathon. At the very least it should be scenic! It will be interesting to see how my current running compares to my much younger self 🙂
Once you have a race goal in mind, if you can, sign up and pay for it! This will give you extra motivation to put in the necessary work.
Now that I have my target race, I can setup a training plan – you should too!
I love this easy Date Calculator. I typed in today’s date and my selected race date and calculated the difference to be 140 days. That’s 20 weeks. Most coaches suggest training for 14 – 26 weeks, depending on your race, experience, pace goal and running base, so I should be in good shape having 20 weeks to train.
You can browse through several different training plans in the Running Resources Tab to find a training plan that suits you.
Training starts today – I’m so excited!!!
*If you’re wondering what NaNoWriMo is… it stands for National Novel Writing Month. NaNoWriMo is an annual event that began in 1999 as a challenge to writers to write a novel of 50,000 words in one month! Whew, crazy right? Not everyone uses this challenge to write a novel. Take me for example, I signed up for NaNoWriMo and challenged myself to write one blog post every day for a month and that is what you are seeing in these NaNoWriMo posts!!!