The Bronx Half-Marathon in 5 WEEKS! Yikes!

We get lots and lots of emails from our TNT coaches. They tell us what we will be doing on a particular workout, remind us to keep fundraising, etc. We got an email this week with the January workout schedule and a little preview of what February will be.

Every month we do a race in New York. It gets us used to running in large groups in a competitive environment. You get the chip timer for your shoe, pin the number on your shirt, all that fun stuff.


The ChampionChip shoe timer is actually pretty cool. It records YOUR actual time, not the time on the start and finish clock. By the time I reached the starting line at the Holiday 4 Mile Race, the clock already read 6:51. There are tons of people, and it takes a while to get there.

The race we are doing in January is the New York Road Runners Fred Lebow Classic 5 Mile. OK, that sounds doable. It's on January 12th, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it will be warmer than it was this morning (12 degrees!!!).

Now here is where it gets scary. This is a direct quote from our head coach. "note: The february event will be the bronx 1/2 marathon ALL participants (except half marathoners) will be participating in this one." He sounds so casual about that! That was just a little note at the end of a list of things we will be doing in January. If you skim the email, you might not even notice it.

Gulp. That means me. I am one of those "ALL participants." The Bronx half-marathon is on Sunday, February 10th at 8:00am. 13.1 miles! Oh boy. I knew long distances were coming, but I didn't realize they were coming so soon!

I'm going to my friend Holly's wedding on February 9th. It's in Manhattan around 6pm. So, I'm thinking it must end around 11-ish. I doubt I would sleep well the night before my first half-marathon no matter what I did the night before, so it should be fine. I will have to remember to only have the champagne with a toast, and no other drinks. It's a good thing she is getting married at a pizza place (John's Pizza in Times Square - so fun!). I can carb load at the wedding on pizza and garlic bread.


I'm hoping that global warming really kicks in on February 10th. Temperatures in the 40s would be great.