LA Roadrunners: 2012

I decided that this year would be the year. However, until I hit "submit" on the La Roadrunners/LA Marathon website I must admit.....there was doubt about following through with the training necessary to complete a full marathon. I had hopes the past year of registering and running LA, but to be honest....self training is difficult. I did not have the motivation to run more than 11 miles by myself. Sure, I ran a couple halfs last year, but even as a solo runner, there was some sort of immediate camaraderie that happens as a result of running in a crowd.  The individual runs never surpassed 11 miles. Anyone familiar with marathon training knows that 11 miles is not going to cut it.

With that fail under my belt, I decided that if I was going to ever run LA, I needed to do it proper. Thats where the LA Roadrunners came in. After reading up and thinking hard, I shelled out the money (very reasonable now that I am seeing the perks) and joined the group. Since training began, I had to really evaluate my past runs and realistically choose a pace group. The 10:30 race pace group was the one *i think* that will be the best fit. We do our long runs at 11:30 with the anticipation of racing at a faster pace.

Today was our second group run out in Venice. We meet bright and early at 6:40AM to walk over to the Strand. Today we ran 4miles, next week 5, then 6 then 8 and on up. The midweek is all up to us. I have been training on a treadmill lately due to the unusual heat here in SoCal. Hopefully I can change that in the next few weeks and get some nice outdoor runs before daylight savings takes our evening light away.

Will be posting weekly about the training and progress........