I wasn’t 17 anymore and I couldn’t even run a mile.

I was so out of shape I didn’t really know where to start. In February 2022, I was the heaviest I have ever been in my whole life and even some of my running shorts were too tight, yikes!! STEP 1: BUILD UP TO ONE MILE I hadn’t really been exercising that regularly since 2020 and it showed. I started training for this half marathon after two years of the pandemic, and let me tell you I was completely out of shape. If you run, no matter your pace, you are a runner. This time, I am really training for it and I’m going to be very sad if it gets postponed again. The event got re-scheduled for June 2021, and then re-scheduled again for Labor Day weekend 2022. In December 2019, I finally signed up for the June 2020 Seattle Rock N Roll half marathon and started training for that until March 2020 when the pandemic hit. Thinking back to it, I never ran more than 7 miles in training, so I don’t think I would’ve been able to run 13 miles regardless. My friend Molly had already run a half marathon the summer before and agreed to sign up for Newport Beach one with me in May 2017, but it hailed on us that morning and there was just no way I was going to run 13 miles, so I didn’t. I studied abroad in Prague in the fall of 2016 and needed something to work toward to keep myself in shape when I got back to college. This is my friend Grace who ran at state championships and has since run a marathon #fitspo Even back then, the most I’d run was 6 miles, but several of my peers ran half marathons in high school and I guess I’ve always just wanted to see if I could run one.

In other words, I wasn’t even at the top of junior varsity and I was nothing remarkable. Before you look me up on, my 5K PR was 24:22.

I played soccer growing up and ran cross country for two years in high school, but I wasn’t that good. This means that if you click and/or make a purchase through certain links on this site, I may make a commission from it, at no extra cost to you! As an Amazon Affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases. *Lively by Laura is a part of several affiliate advertising programs. If you follow me on Instagram, you know that I started training from square zero in February and have slowly but surely been building up my endurance. My race is only a month (!) away, so I thought I’d give an update on my half marathon training plan progress.Ī half marathon is 13.1 miles long.

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