Week 1 training- ING Georgia Marathon

Pretty decent week of training. I ran a few more miles than I had planned on but I feel ok. I had wanted my base to be a little higher going in to this training program but the last couple of weeks I didn't get the miles in.

We are going on 2 weeks of sickness in my house. Kathy is still coughing badly every third breath or so. She has been to the doctor twice and they have tried different meds. Hopefully she doesn't have pneumonia. And Glenn was getting better but woke up in the middle of the night Friday night with 104.7 fever. We got down but he is coughing and congested again.

I ran the Atlanta Half marathon on Thanksgiving morning. I really didn't know what to try for. Sonya (co-worker from the past) and I were going to run together until one of took off or dropped off the pace. We couldn't find each other at the start so I just line up and took off. At about 1.5 miles she came flying by me. We spoke and she continued on. I was going to try to maintain an 8 min. pace, knowing it was going to be tough. I made it through 7 miles pretty good but then had to start taking walk breaks. The hills got to me. I can tell I don't run on my hilly course that I used to train on all the time.
I hit a rough spot mentally on miles 8-11. Once I got to down town Atlanta and around the buildings where I used to work I was able to get my mind off of the struggles and finish the run on an enjoyable note.

Race splits:
Mile Split
1- 8.28
2- 7.58
3- 8.06
4- 8.04
5- 8.12
6- 8.00
7- 8.09
8- 9.00
9- 8.33
10- 8.54
11- 9.18
12- 9.17
13- 8.34
.1- .56

Total time- 1:51.36

Full weeks training:
Mon- 3 miles
Tues- 5 miles
Wed- no run
Thurs- 13.1 miles
Fri- 3 miles
Sat- no run
Sun- 6 miles

Total- 30.1