Today I officially started my half marathon training! Very excited to do this program. It’s the intermediate half marathon program from Hal Higdon. http://www.halhigdon.com/halfmarathon/inter.htm

It starts of with “stretch and strengthen” so I did my usual one hour workout this morning, but it had an extra vibe to it knowing that it was part of my half training. Running starts tomorrow. A pretty easy week. Three easy three milers, some interval work and a long run of only 5 miles. But I’m moving up to 5 days running a week instead of the 4 I’ve been doing for the last couple of months. So it will be interesting to see how different that is. If all goes well, I might add on a mile or so to the long run each week. The intermediate plan peaks out with a 12 mile run. I wouldn’t mind accomplishing 13 miles or more some time before the race itself.

My goal is for a sub-two-hour half. I feel pretty confident about that, especially after this weekend’s 10 miler. I did that with no problems in 1:42. At the same pace (10:14/mile), 13.1 miles comes to 2:14. But I plan to run a bit faster.