This sums up my feelings about running:

"You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement." - Steve Prefontaine

I figured I had better begin my spark page. I started at Spark people back in early 2008. I forgot about it, and rejoined after gaining 25 pounds, when I had a frozen ...

This sums up my feelings about running:

"You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement." - Steve Prefontaine

I figured I had better begin my spark page. I started at Spark people back in early 2008. I forgot about it, and rejoined after gaining 25 pounds, when I had a frozen shoulder. I reach my goal weight +/- 3 pounds of 120 in mid-August.

Well I am back and ready to improve my life for good. I have been running on and off since 1999. I am back at it and have set my goal to do a half marathon in January of 2010.

Here is my Half Marathon Training Plan:

Week 1: Speed work out - 4 x 400 COMPLETED
Week 1: 1 Mile Warm Up +3 mile Tempo Run + 1 Mile Cool Down COMPLETED as a 5K race with a cool down run afterwards.
Week 1: 6 mile long run COMPLETED 1:02:13

Week 2: Speed work out - 4 x 800 COMPLETED
Week 2: 1 Mile Warm Up + 4 mile Tempo Run + 1 Mile Cool Down COMPLETED
Week 2: 8 mile long run COMPLETED

Week 3: Speed work out - 3 x 1600 COMPLETED
Week 3: 1 Mile Warm Up + 5 mile Tempo Run + 1 Mile Cool Down
Week 3: 10 mile long run

Week 4: Speed work out - 6 x 400
Week 4: 1 Mile Warm Up + 6 mile Tempo Run + 1 Mile Cool Down
Week 4: 6 mile long run

Week 5: Speed work out - 3 x 1600
Week 5: 1 Mile Warm Up + 4 mile Tempo Run + 1 Mile Cool Down
Week 5: 10 mile long run

Week 6: Speed work out - 4 x 800
Week 6: 1 Mile Warm Up + 8 mile Tempo Run + 1 Mile Cool Down
Week 6: 8 mile long run

Week 7: Speed work out - 6 x 400
Week 7: 1 Mile Warm Up + 6 mile Tempo Run + 1 Mile Cool Down
Week 7: 10 mile long run

Week 8: Speed work out - 4 x 1600
Week 8: 1 Mile Warm Up + 8 mile Tempo Run + 1 Mile Cool Down
Week 8: 12 mile long run

Week 9: Speed work out - 3 x 800
Week 9: 1 Mile Warm Up + 3 mile Tempo Run + 1 Mile Cool Down
Week 9: 6 mile long run

Week 10: Speed work out - 4 x 400
Week 10: 1 Mile Warm Up + 2 mile Tempo Run + 1 Mile Cool Down
Week 10: Half Marathon

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
– Beverly Sills

"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses."
– Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.
--Chinese Proverb

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."
– Vincent Lombardi

"I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody."
– Lily Tomlin

"A woman's wisdom is passed from one generation to the next. Today is a good day to reflect on the wisdom you've received and the wisdom you have to share with others."

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
– Samuel Beckett

"Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life — learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some."
– Robert Fulghum

"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be."
– Groucho Marx

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