Best of luck to your Hubby on his first marathon, I’m sending speedy great training vibes his way. Also, I’m pulling for you getting rid of those shin splints for good (I didn’t even know you could have them for a year!). You’ve got the right thinking as far as starting slowly so don’t go crazy with the intervals now, y’hear? Get those legs in tip-top shape and I expect to hear some happy race stories coming from you. :-)

And yeah, I post on RW all the time as Girl In Motion, mostly on the Marathon Training Forum and lately on the 5k, 10K, Half-Marathon Race Training Forum, in the 1:40 Half thread.

Take care and happy running to you and your man!

I wanted to intro myself. I just found your blog (I think from someone on the H&F board on The Nest), and I actually just got done reading all of it. First I wanted to say WOW you rock. I don’t know the full history of your running career, but from what I did get it has not been a long one. However, you have developed into a speed demon quickly. Your dedication is amazing. I found myself trying so hard to find your first big race (the half I think), and quickly get to that post just to see how it went. I am sorry it was not the dream run, but I am totally making my husband read it. I think you two are two peas in a pod. Although we are in are late twenty’s, he was never an active person, and after losing weight he picked up running to keep it off. The later I bought him a Garmin and ever since then it has been all about running in our house. He has his first marathon in May (less than a year from when he first started racing), and he is already looking at trying to BQ. Like you he is a natural, but your HM story is a great reminder of respecting the distance.

I am a little behind my husband in our running journey (I have had shin splints for a year), but I am excited to get started (slowly started).

Thanks so much for sharing your story and your running knowledge. I am off to try some of your interval work.

Thanks again!

P.S. Are you still on RW forums? I poke around alot, but I have not posted much.

I’m thinking 7:25s on that Half pace, subject to change of course, but that number is calling to me. We’ll see if 6 weeks can give me a touch more speed or just endurance. OK, now I really gotta get out of here (I am Procrastination Queen today).