I am so excited about the half marathon. The half marathon makes sense to me. It is a humane distance, a do-able distance. It doesn't require hours and hours of daily training to prepare for it, one long walk with several short walks each week is enough. To me it is perfect.
I was just read the last installment of the
Road to Ironman series on MSNBC. I have been following it for several months now and the athlete has decided to take a detour, to not attempt to compete in the ironman. Her main reasons are that the training sessions are too long and boring (5 hours riding a bike? Several times a week? Competitively? I hear ya sister!) I am in the same boat. I actually enjoy exercising an hour a day. I can appreciate one "long" day a week of more than an hour. But I am not willing to give up multiple hours each day for training. The day is just too short. I want to spend time with my daughter and my spouse, to make a healthy tasty dinner to read a book, to check up on my blogs. Basically, I want a life outside of exercising too.
Half marathon, here I come.
# posted by amy @ 10:26 AM
