As previously mentioned...

I suck at keeping up with this blog. I don't feel as creative as most of you gals, but I shall try my damndest. I'll jump on the bandwagon and talk about training for the half marathon coming up!

My sister/roommate and I decided to run the half marathon relay at the end of January, because it would give us a good reason to go out and run a few times every week. This is not our first attempt at a half. In the summer of 2005, right after I moved back from Nebraska and was in the best shape of my life, we signed up to train with the local chapter of USA Fit. My mom joined us in this attempt. She only lasted two weeks. C., my sister, lasted about a month. And me? Four whole months. I got up to running 9 miles at a time, woke up every Saturday morning around 4:00 am and did all of the weekly training runs by myself. Unfortunately, I sustained an injury to my hip flexor area and had to drop out of the training, and never actually got to run the actual race itself.

But this time I intend to do the whole thing. So far my long run is only up to around 3 miles, but I plan to start stretching them out to around 5 miles in the next week or two. I also am combining my running with twice-weekly strength sessions at the gym. And eating a healthy balanced diet.

So far I haven't lost any weight. Sucks.