As you all know, I just recently moved to San Diego. One of my favorite things about this city is the weather. It’s sunny and decent out just about year round (with a rainy day here and there). This means I can enjoy running outside whenever I want to, which always makes me happy.

But rather than running just to run, I’ve decided it’s time to have a goal. The goal I’ve decided on is getting into shape to run the America’s Finest City Half Marathon in August. It’s 13.1 miles of running through downtown San Diego and should be a good time.

My training has been a combination of trying to eat right and a massive amount of running. I’ve stopped eating most junk food and started cooking healthy. At the moment, I’m running about 15 miles a week, but over the next seven months I will be slowly increasing that so I am prepared to run on race day. All my training will involve running in some way. These will include easy runs and long runs, both meant to build up my stamina and endurance, mixed with a few tempo runs to build up speed. I’m going to try and update this blog with my progress as I go along, but my training log can also be viewed here.

At this point, my goal with this marathon is not just to finish it, but to do it in less than three hours, which will earn me a finisher medal. As I train more and get a better idea of what I’m capable of, I might tighten up a goal a little bit and try to beat a certain time, but this early in my training it’s hard to tell.