You should do it! It sounds like you're already pretty much ready.I've been trying to talk myself into running a half marathon. I ran 11 miles last Saturday at a sustainable 10 minutes/mile pace. That run included one of the three hills the 13.1 course runs. The one I'm looking at is May 29.
Thanks. It's hard to convince myself. Like, as someone who has never run a half and would probably finish with a time around 2:10, it feels like I'm insulting all the actual good runners by doing the same race. I know that's insane, but it's hard to shake the feeling. I suppose I need to reference my personal Rule 2 which goes something like "stop thinking about it and just do it. If you've thought about it this long and don't have a reason not to, it's as good as it's going to get."
Everybody starts somewhere ! People in those races are just paying attention to themselves because it's more about beating your own time as opposed to somebody else's. I would definitely just stop thinking about it and impulsively sign up if I was you :)
I signed up last night, thanks. :) I was poking around the half marathon's website and saw they had a St Patrick's Day coupon for $5 off. So I went for it. I also signed up for a 20K run earlier in May. Hopefully I'm not overdoing things, but the 20K is a really flat course and should be good practice for the slightly longer, slightly hillier half marathon.
I have! They're still all new to me, but after reading some of the online training plans I think I'm mostly in good shape for the runs. I did add some interval hill training, and it already seems to be helping. I'm giving myself a forced day off today to prepare for another long run on Saturday. The rough training plan I'm trying is Monday intervals, Wednesday intervals, Thursday short run, Saturday long run. The interval days end up being 4-5 miles between a warm up and cool down. Depending on how I feel, I may swap one of those weekdays with something like walking or hiking or _add_ a day of walking or hiking on an off day. I'm more sore than I was doing running or other cardio consistently but with no real plan. I think that's good; it's soreness, not pain. I do feel the miles in my knees a little, but again it isn't pain. It's no worse than a full day backpacking. My running form seems to be holding steady as I up the miles. I ordered a water belt, and it should be here today. I needed it last week, though it's cooler again this week. I also need to figure out nutrition while running. That's new to me, so I'm going to pick up some gels and take one with me for the middle of a long run.
Probably. They might have been helpful last weekend at 11 miles, and 13 miles in May will probably be a little sweatier. Definitely worth a little inconvenience to avoid that pain!I know that a normal marathon usually requires nipple-bandaids, but does a half?