Find joy in the Journey

You can totally hit a 2hr half!! Kelli is the woman with speed work, I think she looks at workouts in books/magazines and just does them. I usually just copy her :)

You're not that far from a 2hr half-mary.

Have you looked into Halhigdon's training program? www.halhigdon.com I highly recommend it.

Thanksgiving Point Half is 12 weeks away, isn't it? Higdon's half marathon training schedules are 12 weeks. You can totally do it!

Have FUN training! :)

Oh, as for speedwork. Start simple, like some 400-800 repeats, jog w/ same amount of time in between for recovery. The idea for speedwork is to teach the body to run most efficiently so try to run these fast but controlled and relaxed, a good form is what you're aiming for.

Fartleks are also fun in the middle of a run. Or try progression run: e.g. in a 6 miler, run easy conversation pace the first couple miles, then pick up the pace the middle 2 miles at comfortably hard effort where you can speak 3-5 words answers; then the last mile or 2 run at 5K race pace effort where you can answer yes/no questions.

Anyway! Speed will come after you've put in some solid base miles.

Have fun!