Have I mentioned I am training for a 1/2 marathon? Dave and I both are. We are flying down to Florida on November 8; the 1/2 marathon is on the night of November 10 – which is my birthday! I chose this specific 1/2 for that very reason. It is at night, and it’s on my birthday. I’m not a morning person at all, and for the regular Disney World marathon I would have to be awake at 4AM! Well, I will probably still be awake at 4AM for this one, but I’d rather stay up then wake up!
I’ve been training via a program I edited from runnersworld.com. You can put in a recent time and distance you have completed and the date of your race and it will give you a training schedule. My schedule came out with times slower than I normally run, so I took a minute off of all of them. They are still slower than I normally run! For example, Tuesday’s run called for 4 miles at 14.38 minutes per mile. I ran 4.19 at 12.25 minutes per mile. Today’s run is a tempo run totaling 4 miles. The 2 middle miles are supposed to be run at 12.55 minutes per mile. On Sundays I am supposed to do long runs. They are the hardest part for me, and obviously the part I need to work on the most if I have any chance of completing 13.1 miles!
For my long runs, I want to add more music to my running play list. Here is what is on it right now:
- Rocketman – Daphne Rubin-Vega
- Forever – Chris Brown
- Dynamite – Taio Cruz
- Get Busy – Sean Paul
- Jessica – Ethnix
- Get Ready For This – Extreme Party Animals
- Everybody Everybody – Much Dance 90’s
- Ice Ice Baby – Much Dance 90’s
- Let’s Talk About Sex – Much Dance 90’s
- Time Warp – The Rocky Horror Show
- Don’t Stop Believin’ – Extreme Party Animals
- Be My Baby – Extreme Party Animals
- Under the Sea – A*Teens
- Boys of Summer – The Ataris
- One Week – Barenaked Ladies
- Rock and Roll All Night – Kiss
- Accidentally in Love – Counting Crows
- My Sharona – The Knack
- Jimmy Jimmy – Madonna
- That Thing You Do! – The Wonders
- Rolling In The Deep – Adele
- Take on Me – A-ha
- Eye of The Tiger – Survivor
- Born This Way – Lady Gaga
- The Edge Of Glory – Lady Gaga
- Life Is a Highway – Rascal Flatts
Any suggestions on what to add?