If you’ve been keeping up with my special blog, you may be aware that I completed my first half-marathon back in October of this year, and am planning to complete my second in May of next year.

While I had fun running the half-marathon at the Baltimore Running Festival, the fact that I felt paralyzed from the waist down 2/3 into the race and for a good few hours following leads me to believe that my bootleg “training program” of just running whenever I felt like it for however long I felt like it doesn’t exactly “work.”

Even though the Willow Tree Half in Providence is 5 months away, I’d like to start training for it now, because I feel all kinds of motivated for it these days.  The thing is, most half-mara programs only take an average of 3 months (a full takes about 5).

So!  I’ve been on a mission to find a program for a half that takes 5 months.  Extensive interweb searches have proved to be far from fruitful.  There HAS to be a 5 month program!! Gaaaa!

Has anyone out there ever heard of a 5 month schedule, or am I just totes crazy to be even trying to find one?  I’m sort of banking on those couple of readers who are also race runners making my wish come true here.

In fact, any pre-training advice from anyone would be useful right about now.  Not only would I like to avoid feeling like death warmed over wrapped in helium balloon foil for May’s race, but I’d also like to decrease the time of the first one by at least 20 minutes.  Plus, once the training physically gets underway, I’ll be holding myself accountable by, you guessed it, blogging about it.  And who knows, maybe Brandi will be sooo inspired, she’ll decide to East-Coast-it and run it too.  Just sayin.’

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