Over the past few months, I have not maintained my running schedule, let alone have done much running at all.
I am registered for the Toronto Scotiabank Half Marathon for October 14 and had signed up for the run/walk option. I signed up for this last year hoping that by the time this came, I would be all ready.
I am pretty sure in another past post I had mentioned that I had signed myself up for a half marathon running clinic. I went to the first night and saw that the instructor was a university student. This shouldn’t have mattered to me but my thought process was that if I was going to pay for someone to instruct me on running, I wanted someone with more experience. So as pig headed as I was about this (and really illogical to say the least), I didn’t return. I said to myself that I could do it myself.
Well as you all can see, I have not been consistent throughout as far as training is concerned.
I had contacted the run organizers and talked about becoming a walker on the course. This way, without doing my full running training program, I could still finish the course walking and not waste my fees for not doing it at all. I was about to contact the run organizer yesterday to change my name to a walker and then stopped. If I go to a walker classification, I am not allowed to do anything other than walk. If I do the run/walk option that I had originally signed up for, I could do both! After such a great run yesterday, I am torn. I haven`t trained for the run and hope to god that I wouldn`t injure myself but I also think having the option of running and walking is better. But I still don`t know for sure!
Please comment and tell me what you think! I would love to hear your opinion, as to what you would do in this situation!
