It’s only a month now until the San Antonio half-marathon that my wife and I are going to run in. We’re not serious runners, but needed a challenge and an excuse to see a town that sounds like a lot of fun.
So we’ve been training along the “half-marathon for noobs” sort of plan, and got up to six miles before our schedule was interrupted by our trip to Salt Lake City last week. We did get in some running there, but not the long-distance mileage we needed: last Sunday was supposed to be a ten-mile run. Ummm, I think we’re a bit short!
My wife, Jan, is doing fine, but I managed to pull my right calf muscle a bit while we were in Salt Lake, and so far can only run about a mile and a half before it starts hurting. Today we were supposed to do five miles: Jan ran the whole way when she went out (while I was at work), and I ran about a mile and a half and then walked the rest as fast as I could. Despite how it may look (aside from sorta silly, at least in my case), it’s darn hard to walk fast for long distances!
Anyway, I’m going to try and run/walk my mileage and hope that my calf heals up by November 15th when we run the race!
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#1 by Larry on November 1st, 2009 - 10:00 pm
Michael, looking forward to seeing you there. Let me know if you need some restaurant suggestions.
#2 by Michael R. Hicks on November 3rd, 2009 - 8:33 pm
Larry – Cool! I’m just hoping to be able to run the whole thing with my goofy left knee. Ack!