Week 8 of Half-Marathon Training

Week 8 of half-marathon training done! YEAH!! 8 miles today, and they felt pretty great. My first 3 miles were at a 9:30 pace, then the next 3 miles at a 10 minute pace, mile 7 was surprisingly at a 9:30ish pace, and mile 8 was at 10 again. The weather man was calling for rain and snow, so I really was not looking forward to my run this morning. Thankfully, he was wrong and it was just cloudy with the sun popping out every now and then (I wore only one pair of pants and had to remove layers from the top as I went along). Last night (or rather early this morning) my daughter (she's 4) also decided that she wanted to sleep walk. I found her at 4am downstairs calling for me asking why I left without her. I put her back in bed and she just rolled over and kept right on sleeping. Of course I couldn't get myself back to sleep - I just kept having visions of her running down the street. At 6am I gave up and just got out of bed. Made some coffee and Chris made breakfast sandwiches - note to self NO BACON on long run days. YUCK! My running partner was not having such a good day either and forgot to take her Advil for her ankle, so she cut out a little early (she still knocked out almost 6 miles with me before breaking off for home).
Regardless of every thing that seemed to be going wrong this morning my run was actually really good. Once I got home and showered I had a ton of energy too. Now what to do with all this energy?!
I can't believe there are only 4 more weeks until my first half! I certainly hope all these training runs are going to pay off and make it somewhat easier on race day. Either way I'm super stoked for March 16th and the Rock 'n Roll half!!!!

February Challenge Update:
I'm still doing really well with my February challenges too. I took one rest day so far (last Sunday) and I've only missed two days of planks (I got all the other exercises those days, but put off the plank until later and then never got to it, no more putting it off until later!). I'm really proud of myself for sticking with it and knocking them out each and every day. They are starting to get harder as the month goes by, but I'll keep on keeping on.