JW

Thanks for the info for Bikerreed I'll check that out.

As far as the half I think you have time once April comes and the weather will hopefully get even better you can up your mile.
They even have calculators:http://www.marathonguide.com/FitnessCalcs/ that tells you how long you should train for a race. I know when I first started pop in my time and it told me that I needed 6 months to train for the marathon. It also told me that it would take me 4:30 to finish at that pace.

I started running in May last year and ran the Beach to Beacon because that's what I set for my goal and I trained in Raymond and that was the best thing I could of done. While people were complaining about what they thought were hills I just laughed. I had one course that had what I would call hills off the Raymond hill road and valley road it was also most 8 miles.
My goal this year is to run the half also and I've been up to 10 or 17 miles in the last 3 weeks but I tried to slow my self down a little because I was adding to much milage all at once.

boothy52

I ran the irish rover today.. it was fun, but that hill was a killer!!!! i am still recovering from my half last week, so i was happy to run 24 something in this race.. i did not see any mile markers on the course.. and i wish they had those.. oh well.. i was running for fun .. basically i decided yesteday to run because i knew in my mind i needed to get out there with a lot of other runners... oh.. and a few porta potties would have been nice... my daughter had to help me move a dumpster out of the way so i could squat behind it!!! 

we runner's lose all modesty.. but i did not want to get arrested for indecent exposure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi guys - I was there too yesterday - met speedymama as well!  My nephew kyle did great - I finished, but wasn't expecting any more than that since I did such a poor job training for this.   !http://www.coolrunning.com/forums/wink.gif|src=http://www.coolrunning.com/forums/wink.gif|border=0!

thanks for the info on the half as well - I'm going to check out that website and plug my numbers in today so that I'll know how soon I need to decide. My biggest fear is training for it alone as a newbie - my mpw has dropped significantly over the past couple of months for a number of reasons, so I'll bet I will need to get going right off if I'm going to be able to participate. Yikes!

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Speedy
That was very good and I bet it was nice getting outdoors to run on such a nice day. We must of had almost the exact times!
Hey what is everyone doing this weekend? I'm not sure about the coffee run MTC or the Merryman myself only time tells.
Hope everyone has a good weekend and can get some running in.

Boothy52

I agree with Curlygirl about the  B to B I ran it last year as a goal I set to do and thought it was great. I've been waiting for two month to signup and hope to drop my time this year  by 5 minutes. It has a limited registration of 5000 and it closed out early last year, so if your planning on running it you need to get in.
This year my goal will be the half M in Oct. which will be my first one. It will be interesting to see how I handle that, right now my long runs are 6 miles and I hope to buildup as better weather approaches.

boothy52

those hills are easy!!! i love them!!! i run a loop that has them on the end of it and i feel like i know them inside and out.. just get yourself out on the course a few times so you know what to expect on the hills..

boothy.. you will be fine for the half.. i started runnning last march and rana half in february.. you just need to run your regular runs and get your long run gradually up.. if you can d a long run of 6 now.. you can probably easily do 8 or 9... i found that i had done a long run pretty mich once a week fromoct thruogh feb.. at first i just kept it at 10 miles for my long run.. but if you throw in a 12- 13 mile run every 3rd week or so you will be good..

also, do not underestimate the importance of speed work..i did not use it to the t.. but i followed the intermediate half plan on this site and found it worked well.. good luck!!!!!

boothy.. i think i am going to train in lewiston...

what corporate team are you on? a friend of mine is actually captaining a team where he works..

i don't have enough people at my work for a team...

i am hoping to go on one of those roaster runs.. i am not sure if i can make this week as my son is in a hockey tournament and i have to work sat the following week.. but definitely after that....