I am still trying to decide between running the San Antonio RNR or the Seawall Half Marathon in Galveston, both are in November, whichever one I end up picking will be my first. I have looked at a few training plans and I have found most to be a little intimidating. I am average running about 12 miles a week now, but adding a 4th (or a 5th) day of training into the mix sounds like it might be too much, especially with this Texas heat. 

It's good to know I'm not alone--I'm also training for my first, the All Women & One Lucky Guy Half in Newburyport, MA in early November. My training was sort of hit & miss until I got out of school a week ago. I wanted to get back in shape and then I read The Non-Runners' Marathon Guide for Women by Dawn Dais (she even included training plans for a half and full marathon for runners and runner-walkers). If you haven't read it, I highly recommend it (very funny and inspirational at the same time).

Susana

I'm hoping to be ready to do a half in March as well.  It really depends on how training goes over the winter, but for now, that's the plan.

Hope the November first timers did (or do) great! I did my first one yesterday -- Pensacola Marathon -- and will be doing my second one in the beginning of March. I didn't train as well as I should have and ended up walking quite a bit of the race (including almost a mile with an injured runner), but I finished it! And I wasn't last!

I'm using yesterday's race as a foundation, and will build on it to have an awesome race in March.

One-size fits all training plans are good in certain situations. Apparently you didn't fit in. I'm using automated training planner Sportlyzer. It caluclates a custom plan and keeps updating it as you log in trainings. For tracking I use Garmin Fit mobile app as Sportlyzer syncs to GarminConnect.

Sometimes it's not as adaptive as I would like, but I couldn't plan my trainings smarter myself.