Half-marathon training – Week 0 – Here we go again …

18/09	0 miles	Rest day (fly from YYZ to SEA)
19/09	3 miles	Slow & easy, more slow than easy
20/09	3 miles	Slow & easy
21/09	3 miles	Slow & easy
22/09	0 miles	Rest day
23/09	5 miles	Long run
24/09	3 miles	Slow & easy, recovery run
Total	17 miles	YTD: 536 miles (includes 10 miles while on vacation)

The Seattle Half Marathon is 9 weeks from today. Ideally, I would have started training about a month ago but my great European vacation got in the way of that. Instead I started training this past week in what I called “Week 0″ of my training program. This week was all about getting back into running, ignoring pace and assessing my current state of fitness. I have certainly lost some fitness over the past month but I think I can whip myself back into good form over the next 9 weeks.

In the spirit of jumping in headfirst I’ve mailed in my registration for both the half-marathon and for the 10K Dawg Dash which I’m going to use as a tune-up race. I also bought a new pair of running shoes yesterday. I decided that having two pairs to alternate between was going to be necessary in the rainy Seattle autumn. Now that I’ve made the monetary commitment I’m definitely motivated to make the mental, physical and nutritional commitments! My goal is to run a sub 2 hour half-marathon. I’d really like to make that happen.