1/2 marathon, 10 days away!

So I have always been a runner, but never worked too hard at it or enjoyed it or kept with it on my own accord. It has always been an easy way to stay in shape. Did you know to start burning fat you can run for 15 minutes or walk for 45 minutes. No thank you to walking for 45 minutes to just start burning fat. Ugh! Not that fat burning is a big concern, but why would I do anything for 45 minutes that I could do in 15?

My best friend, Hannah, lives in Portland and I haven't seen her since the early part of the year. So in an effort to get her to come to Idaho I decided I would see if she would run a half marathon with me. Hannah is a personal trainer and actually enjoys this type of thing. Haha, so needless to say, I didn't have to do much convincing and she was already planning on coming over the same weekend.

Let the training begin, 10 weeks ago. I started running and have averaged 4-5 runs per week. Until this week, which I will blame on school and lazyness, and will title "tapering." Haha! It has been pretty fun, at week four I wanted to give up. Hannah decided we needed to email our workouts to each other. From then on, fear fueled my ambition. Hannah was running her miles much faster than I was. Yikes! So I have worked harder and brought my times down.

I ran my long runs with a friend here in Idaho, and what a blessing that was. It has been fun spending more time with Jenny and we even went on a double date to Olive Garden with the husbands. Every other run, except for one, has been by myself.

Anyway, this is a long post to say, I am excited. It is going to be a lot of fun, and I am interested to see how I race compared to my long runs, training, etc. Most of all, I am so pumped to have Hannah all to myself for 13.1 miles. Hopefully I won't be sucking too much air to chat with her!