Whose idea was this Half Marathon Anyway?

At some point in the end of last year, I mentioned to Mr 1500 that we should do a half-marathon as round 2 of our fitness challenge.  It seemed like a great idea.  I was kind of shocked that he actually agreed to it.

So, while I have actually been running and training for this thing, I haven't actually been keeping you, our dear adoring public up to date with the progress of what has been going down.  Now this changes!!!!

I've seen a lot of posts about updates to running from Mr. 1500.  His training seems to be going well.  You can see all the updates that he has posted here, here, here, here and here.  And my personal favorite about farting... you know... speeding in Swedish.  Good Lord, just copying all those links made me realize how lazy I've been with my updates.

So How is it going?

All in all it's been going well.  The Mrs and I have been training together since the turn of the year.  We typically go on runs together 3 times or so a week.  We were both ramping up the mileage and making good strides to getting in shape for the race. Let's discuss some of the highlights from the training thus far:

• In the middle of January, we were out of the country for two and a half weeks.  We were actually in South East Asia working on a medical mission.  And I'll tell you what's not good for Half-Marathon training..  90 degree weather with 85% humidity, and a jungle.  Yeah, that didn't work.


• On the way back, we stopped through CO and visited the 1500's.  They were kind enough to have a BBQ with some local friends while we were in town.  But this also meant that Mr 1500 and I went for a run.  I'll have to admit, running at altitude and in the cold after two and a half weeks of not running, and sweating profusely trying to sleep was an interesting experience.  But, I made it and we did a training run together.  I think it was 3 miles, but it was 3 miles more than I did prior to that!!


• I've been slowly ramping up my mileage and maintaining a weight lifting regiment as well.  This, in addition to standard bike commute.  As such, I've been doing alright as far as the cardio goes.  But, I ended up throwing out my back two weeks ago.  I'm getting old.  I could hardly get out of bed, and I was in so much pain I could hardly sleep.  Every time I rolled over I'd get a shooting pain down my neck.  It was AWESOME!  Running was put on hiatus while I waiting to be able to get out of bed in the morning.


• Mrs. Wow's company has been taking off, and she has a lot of things on her plate.  Like the reasonable, mature human that she is, she decided that it would be in her best interest to run the 10k, not the half.  She just seems to think that there might be better things to do with her hours than pound pavement.  She's got a point, but we did have our little spats along the side of the road:
  

  Her - You should keep going I'm holding you up.
  Me - No, I like running with you.
  Her - Well, then why do you always run 20 feet in front of me?
  Me - Uhhhh... point taken.

  
  


• Two weeks ago, I went on an 8 mile run.  I was a little concerned because I hadn't run that far, but everything went off without a hitch.  I was flying, felt great.  Any of you runners know this feeling, the runner's "High".  After I got home, I looked down and my toes were hanging out the side of my running shoes.  For those of you that aren't runners, you're supposed to change your shoes every 500 or so miles, because they wear out.  I've had these for the better part of 6 years, no bueno.  And now I'm stuck trying to break in new shoes 3 weeks from the race.  Lovely!!!

This little piggy left home.

So, yeah... it's going FANTASTIC!!!

In all seriousness, I'm excited to run this thing.  It's going to be fun.  Well, fun isn't really the right word, but it will be a good experience.

It also sounds like there are going to be several people that we are going to meet up with while in Portland.  So, if you're in town, make sure to hit us up.

Not only is it going to be great to run with Mr 1500 & JD, there are few folks from the Waffle community that are going to be running with us!!  That's going to be awesome!

Also, we're looking at getting plenty of good beers while there, because lord knows we love our beer!!

In the words of the Olympics: Citius, Altius, Fortius  We're rapidly approaching one of our goals for 2018.  I hope you are as well!!!

ARRRGGGHHHHH  ... We're almost there!!!