Are we there yet?

Welcome to week 12, my final week of training for this half marathon. I can hardly believe it is this Sunday!

According to training guru Hal Higdon, this is my "taper" week, meaning that I'm running shorter distances for training runs. I'm looking forward to this race for many reasons, but lately one of the big ones is that it will be nice to have some weekday afternoons back. I plan to keep running regularly, but will probably cut down to between two and three times a week instead of four. For some reason this week has felt incredibly long, and mentally it has been a struggle to push myself out the door after work to run, even though my distances are shorter than in previous weeks. Every time I've laced up my sneakers this week, I've felt like a kid on a long car ride: "Are we there yet? Is the race here yet?"

We watched a PBS special on Monday about people training for the Boston marathon. I thought it was a very interesting documentary and rather inspiring. Before I even realized what I was doing, I found myself googling marathon calendars for 2008. But only out of curiosity, of course. I need to get through one race at a time. :)