Well, it turns out that I'll be running the Moab Half Marathon after all. I had registered for the lottery, but didn't draw out, but a friend of mine managed to pull some strings and got me accepted for the race. This means I better actually train! (Unless you want to count the previous 10 months as the longest taper period, ever). I've decided to use Hal Higdon's Novice Half Marathon schedule for my training. It kills me that I'm using a novice schedule, but given my 10 month "taper", I need to start with something easy and build into longer runs. However, since race day is only 8 weeks away, I'll need to start midway through the schedule - thus today's 4 mile run. I know starting out with a longish run like that is just begging for shin splints (or worse) but I don't have a lot of options given how many training days (52) are left until the race. I'm surprised how good I felt during the run - I fully expected to dead after one, maybe two miles, but I was able to stick it out and actually hit my goal. GPS output:
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/4798044
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