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What made you think...1/2 marathon? I can do that!

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  • jpapp13
    jpapp13 Posts: 73 Member
    I think there's an 'why not' moment for everyone.
    I started running (slowly) to get back into shape and help lose about 40 pounds.
    Shortly there after I had signed up for Color Me Rad , my finish time was laughable but I finished and it wasn't horrible.
    Over the fall/winter a few friends of mine were doing the Broad Street run (2013), so I trained for that.. and finished in 2:19:24

    Around when I was training for that a whole bunch of us signed up for tough mudder and rock and roll marathon, I figured I could run 10 miles, what was 3 more ..surprisingly enough I finished in 2:24:05 .. i was honestly going to be happy finishing under three.. after the one I was more or less hooked and finished out the year with a 2:22:17 in October '13.

    This year so far I have completed two halfs, the broad street and merrell down and dirty, with two more halfs planned, a spartan sprint, and a decathlon. . next year I'm setting my sights on a triathlon sprint which means i may have to pare down so many HM's ..

    But honestly even if you don't train you can complete a half, it just comes down to it what your goals are.
  • soxobsessed
    soxobsessed Posts: 130 Member
    I had done a bunch of 5ks and a 9k and I was like, I should try something longer, the BAA (they are in charge of the Boston Marathon) have a 1/2 Marathon in October, so I figured I would support them after what happened in 2013 and run that. I was so scared I wouldn't finish, and well, I did and I loved it. I signed up for my next one for this October but in Newburyport instead, hoping to possibly do my first marathon in 2015
  • KathleenKP
    KathleenKP Posts: 580 Member
    I was sitting in a GI doctor's office, in week 4 of C25K, frustrated b/c I was on hold towards my goal of finishing a 5k. That's all I had really planned...MAYBE I'd move to a 10K. I ran 3 miles around the inside of the school gym one day in high school PE, but that was the extent of my running experience prior to C25K.

    And my doctor looked at me and said "You should be running half-marathons, not 5Ks."

    That's all it took. Someone to believe in me, to tell me, matter of factly, that I should be doing it.

    Before I made it home, I knew I was doing a Half-Ironman. Triathlons were my goal, but I never thought I'd get much beyond an Oly distance b/c of the running. I'm still a very slow runner - my speed in this part of the tri will put me as one of the last in my AG to finish, even though I will be one of the first in my AG out of the water. Give me another year and I'll be much better on the bike. Hopefully I will finally see some improvement in my running times, too.

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