The road to the Disney Half Marathon- Two weeks and counting

I'm starting to get really excited for the Disney Half Marathon! As of today, the race is exactly two weeks away, and we leave in less than that. I'm in the home stretch, I can see the light at the end of the training tunnel, (add in any other sports cliche you'd like). And it's feeling great... well so to speak. Now that my knee has settled down a bit, my foot is bothering me, but those are just problems that I know how to avoid for my next running race. For now I'm beyond excited for this race.
       The 'official' RunDisney facebook page has been updating like crazy with videos and excited people and the event itself has sent a lot of last minute confirmation emails, so with nothing else to look forward to this winter break, my sights are set squarely on the Disney Half Marathon.
       For all of you that can't make it, I'll be documenting the whole thing. I'll be taking an insane amount of pictures and who knows maybe I'll take a few videos and make them into a youtube video (if I can figure out how).

     p.s. I must be crazy, but here's a new update on my racing endeavors. A friend of mine just convinced me to sign up for the Go! St. Louis Half Marathon in early April. Despite the fact that I'm an abysmal runner and every year people drop like flies from the heat, I'll do it anyways just for the heck of it. A few friends are also doing it which is pretty much the only reason why I even considered it. But here's the real kicker, the day before is the Run For Your Lives 5k where I'm going to be a 'chaser zombie' for a few hours in the morning. Sooo....we'll see how this works out, with my main concern being potentially getting injured during the 5k. So I'll have an exciting weekend to relay to you all after the first week in April.

In light of my Disney trip---- remember that Disney is an amazingly magical place (I don't care how old you are, nobody can deny this fact) and if you're doing one or more of the races that weekend, have an amazing time!

road to the disney half marathon- less than a month

There's less than a month now until the Disney World Half Marathon and I'm more excited than ever. I've gotta admit though that I slacked on my run training towards the beginning, but I've now almost caught up. This weekend was suppose to be the 9 mile run, but I've been experiencing a lot of pain in my lateral right knee and had to rest it for fear of it getting worse. But, I finally got a knee-brace thing and it pretty much took care of the problem. My ideas are that it's a patellar tendon and/or distal IT band tightness/stretching from my undoubtedly incorrect running stride. But, either way this brace seems to be doing the job because I felt no pain on my 8 mile run the other day. So it looks like things are back on track.

I almost feel like it's taboo to say this, but....running isn't that bad. Can't believe I'd ever say that, but if you're conditioned, it's not horrible. But I add that astricks of "if you're conditioned" because there's few things worse than going out for a 3 mile jog when you haven't run in over a month.

I've also found the awesomeness of trail running. There's a really popular trail in Columbia called the MKT which is flat, open, and, really fun to run on. I emphasize flat, because hills aren't really fun on any run that's longer than 2 miles.

On these longer runs, listening to music only go so far, so I'm going to see if audiobooks can help pass the time a bit better. I sound like an old fart saying that, but hey it's worth a try.