So I get this email earlier from our HR department talking about a Half Walk/Run Marathon coming up in February 2004. I think to myself that Hey…that might be fun so I jot off a response and say I will be happy to participate.
I mention it to Sauron who starts laughing and says, “Uhh…honey…you DO know that a regular marathon is something like 26 miles so I’m guessing a Half Marathon is going to be around 13 miles don’t you?”
WHAT? 13 MILES? Are you kidding me?
I am such an idiot!
Let’s see…if I start training now, ban all Turtle Tracks ice cream from our freezer and hit the gym more regularly, then by February I should just about be ready to tell them they are nuts if they think I can do this!
Maybe it’s half walk and half run, not half marathon. I once signed up for a charity ‘run’ and it was supposed to be 3 miles. It turned out to be 3 laps around a high school track. Lame! I walked around it 9 times. I think that might have been almost three miles.
A half marathon is easier than it sounds (do not tell this to people… keep the mystique going) but even if you decided to walk the entire thing the day before with no training, you’d finish in 4 hours.
You have 6.5 months. From what I read about them, Turtle Tracks aren’t my thing… I certainly never banned Mint Chocolate Cookie. That would be insane.
I’ve used these plans for 5ks and 10ks - and I like them. And they only take 12 weeks, so no real need to worry before mid-November.
I hope not, meow meow, because then a half run/walk marathon would be a marathon.
Marathon = 26.2 miles
I’m pretty sure the “half” applies to the term marathon, meaning it’s 13.1 miles (don’t forget the .1, because after 13 YOU SURE WON’T!!!). You can finish it with whatever kind of stride you like.
[sub]I’m not coming in here to piss on anyone’s parade, but this is kind of a pet peeve of mine. A marathon is 26.2 miles (or equivalent in km) and it ALWAYS is. So when I say I’m training for a marathon, please don’t ask me how far the race is. When I say I’m training for a race, feel free to ask the distance. Sorry, I’ll go away now…:D[/sub]
Well, you could just continue to eat it before it gets to the freezer. Or install another one in the basement that Aries doesn’t know about. Just hide it behind some plywood and call it your workbench. You just didn’t hear it from me
Fun Runs are very popular here in Hawaii. I haven’t gone on any in several years so they could have declined in popularity since then. Let’s see, there’s the Zoo run, symphony run, rain forest run, Great Aloha Run, Visitor Industry, and maybe a few others. They usually wind through neighborhood streets. The symphony one was real fun since they had live music distributed throughout the course. And they dressed up too. My favorite was the group doing “Fiddler on the Roof” and yes, they were on a roof. The Visitor Industry one had free food at each of the 21 rest stops supplied by various places. The chocolate booth was one of the favorites. At the end of the zoo run you got into the zoo for free where they had live music.
They’re not that difficult and lots of fun. Most people just walk it although there are people who try for the best times to get various prizes.
The best thing to do is get a group of friends, stick together and have fun. Jog some, walk some and enjoy the entertainment if they supply any. They should. We usually got a t-shirt, plate lunch and they usually have some sort of enterainment and lucky draw prizes at the end. I never won anything though.
