Bit Off Too Much???

[OhioBeachBum]

So I am not a runner, but there is this 5K and Half Marathon in Seaside the first weekend in Mar '06. You guys have probably learned that I like to shake things up a bit. Well, I signed up for the Half Marathon. I know I bit off more than I can chew, but I have big eyes. My thought is that if I don't set big goals, I don't accomplish big goals. I never thought about training schedules until tonight. When I started looking around on the net, the training schedules all consists of at least 18 weeks of training for those who already run. :funnid I say that I don't currently run?

Question - can any runner (not you lazy bums like me) out there direct me to a quicker training schedule, and I am not talking about one which starts with 3 miles like some of the schedules which I found tonight? I don't want to finish the race like

Duct tape a couple of nice steaks to your backside and loose your hounds

 

[shakennotstirred]

Duct tape a couple of nice steaks to your backside and loose your hounds

Or you could have the Poison Truck chase you.

 

[ktschris]

Great idea! Now if this is a mini iron man you'll have to wear a bannana hammock

Yeah, then you'd have to get SoWal.com tattooed on your butt checks :clap_1:

 

[kathydwells]

No, I don't think you bit off too much. I am thinking that you will do it, do it well and live to tell about it. I get the feeling that anything you set your mind to, you accomplish! Good Luck and keep us posted on the training. Oh, but don't train so much that you are too tired to post!!!!

 

[Landlocked]

Cue the music..

Dum da da daaaa-da, Dum da da da da.....

Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch

 

[kathydwells]

That is great, LL!!! :clap_1:

 

[whiteyfunn]

Do you think SoWal could have a competition like they did on Revenge of the Nerds. My favorite event would be drinking a beer for every lap I did on my tricycle. Just a thought.

:bicycle: :bicycle:

 

[whiteyfunn]

SJ, I ran the 5k in Rosemary in the beginning of October. It was tiny compared to Seaside. Always a blast, though. Find you a running buddy and you can chat it up the whole time and you'll be done before you know it.
(I don't know if someone has already said this. I am ADD today so only picking out key words like they taught me.)

 

[RiverOtter]

SJ, I ran the 5k in Rosemary in the beginning of October. It was tiny compared to Seaside. Always a blast, though. Find you a running buddy and you can chat it up the whole time and you'll be done before you know it.
(I don't know if someone has already said this. I am ADD today so only picking out key words like they taught me.)

If I tried to chatt while I was running I wouldn't make it a mile :funn:

 

[ktschris]

I have too much trouble just breathing as I run -- the only chatting I would be doing is gasping out "Call 9-1-1!"