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San Juan Sun · 06-16-2007, 08:52 PM

My wife is a runner. She's run several at varying distances, and she has been gently prodding me to accompany her. I need healthier hobbies, so I decided to finally do one (I've done 2 5Ks, that's it).

So we're going to do a half marathon in 18 weeks. It's going to be a trail run on Mackinaw Island in Michigan in late October. It looks awesome. We also are going to do at least one 10K before then. My wife is big into RunnersWorld, and we found a good program online to get each of us ready in time. I'm pretty pumped.

Anyways, since I know several of your are runners, do you have any thoughts on race training that you wished you'd known before you started out?

06-16-2007, 08:52 PM	#1
San Juan Sun Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Running the bowel Posts: 21	Thoughts on running your first big race My wife is a runner. She's run several at varying distances, and she has been gently prodding me to accompany her. I need healthier hobbies, so I decided to finally do one (I've done 2 5Ks, that's it). So we're going to do a half marathon in 18 weeks. It's going to be a trail run on Mackinaw Island in Michigan in late October. It looks awesome. We also are going to do at least one 10K before then. My wife is big into RunnersWorld, and we found a good program online to get each of us ready in time. I'm pretty pumped. Anyways, since I know several of your are runners, do you have any thoughts on race training that you wished you'd known before you started out?