9 days & 4 runs

Some of you may be wondering what the heck the title of this post means.  Well the first number is the number of days left before the half marathon.  I have been waiting for months to say that we are in the single digits.  I have been training for this race since April and officially registered in May so it has been a long time coming.  As of right now, my team is the largest team for the half marathon with 20+ team members.  It is amazing!!!  This is all thanks to our team captain.  She has done so much to get the team together.  Including getting team shirts.  She has also been planning to get together the morning of the race for a pre race photo and a prayer before the race.  I am very thankful for all her work she has done and for taking the time to allow us to pray for everyone on our team and other runners before the race begins.

The second number in my title is the number of runs that I have left before the actually race.  I will be running 3 miles later this evening and probably another 6 miles Saturday.  That one is still up in the air.  I was wanting to get people together to run with me but I can't seem to get a time together that works for everyone so I was thinking about doing something different.  I am thinking about taking tomorrow off from any type of exercising, running 3 miles Saturday and doing 6 miles with the running group on Sunday morning.  This is only dependent on whether or not my husband has to work or not on Sunday.  It is his scheduled weekend to work and he won't know until either tomorrow or Saturday if he has to work on Sunday so that plan may get a little tweaked.  After that, the plan for next week is to do an hour to an hour and a half on the elliptical machine Monday morning. 

The reason that I would like to do this is because I have found it easier to push through those hard moments in my run.  Not to mention that it is good cross training exercise for runners.  So I want to make sure that I am able to do that one day next week since the race is Saturday.  The next day I plan to run 3-4 miles and take the next 2 days off from any type of exercising.  The plan that I have scheduled for Friday morning is going to kill me to do but I am going to try my best.  I plan to walk with a friend and kinda loosen up before the race. Then all I have to do is get the oldest one from school and drop him and baby girl off at their Granny's and then head up to get my packet and check into the hotel. 

Now that I have wrote all this out, I have just realized how busy I will be next week.  Not to mention those few things that always seem to pop up at the last minute so let's hope that everything goes well.  I am so excited about this race and I can't wait to write about how everything went so that I can share it with you.  So until next time.