“Believe you can and you’re halfway there”- Theodore Rosevelt
Fun fact about that quote: I painted it on a canvas for my dorm room freshman year of college and it’s come along for all four years 🙂
After signing up for the half, I surfed the web and my resources for a training plan that was appealing to me. Many plans for half marathon training start with a 3 mile run which follows a 13 week program…I knew that I wasn’t even at a place where I could run three miles “easily”, so I chose to follow the 20 week training program that began with a mile and a half run. Now that I knew I could handle.
Honestly, the first week was smooth for me. I began on February 3rd after spending October-January maintaining my 3-ish miles a week average, even while on vacation in Mexico!!
I ran outside on Monday and Wednesday, both one and a half milers. I think it was the excitement and anxiousness of the journey I knew I was about to embark on that carried me through those first runs. I enjoyed them.
Saturday I decided would be my “long run” day of the week, so for week one that meant running two miles. For many people that isn’t anything at all, but for me it was SUPER intimidating. I had a lot of anxiety before hand because I knew that if I really wanted to do this half marathon thing then I really had to do the training. No one was going to make me do it, I had to believe I could.
My two mile run on Saturday I decided to do on the treadmill at my boyfriends apartment because for some reason I felt better running on those treadmills than I did on all of the other ones I’ve ran on before. Probably just a mental thing, but oh well! After the first mile I was like okay now just do that all over again lol. It wasn’t near as bad as I was anticipating. I made it through and damn did it feel good afterwards.
Bring on week 2!!
Josie's Journey 