YoYo’s World

By: YoYo

Well guys, on April 27th 2008 I ran my first ever Half Marathon in Oklahoma City. It was a great experience and I’ve already started training for next year. My primary goal was to finish the race and my secondary goal was to finish the race running under 11:30 min/mi. I did in fact finish the race and I did so in 2:24:43. Thoughts in general:I trained for two months and I hae to say I’m proud of the fact that I held through with all the training. In the past I would start things and never finish them, but this I did finish so I see improvement. I noticed that I didn’t need to train as much as I initially thought. When I thought about running 13.1 miles I would think, ‘oh wow I’m going to have to run six days a week doing all these crazy runs and exercises.’ Afterwards, I realized that even though 13.1 miles sounds like a lot, you don’t need to train as much as you think you do. At this point I see 13.1 miles as not very much, so I can see a shift in perspective.

I did also notice that I began to overtrain and this was really wearing me down. If I hadn’t stopped training as hard as I was I could have suffered an injury big time and maybe not even have been able to run. The main kicker that really old me that I was overtraining was when my menstrual cycle became irregular. Ladies, if this happens, for a heads up in the future, this means you are overtraining.

I am comfortable now with calling myslf a runner and want to continue this in the future. I plan to spend the summer training so I can try out for the OU Cross Country team; I’m hoping I can get a scholarship = ). I also want to some time int he future do an Iron Man, which is a triathlon. You swim 2.5 mi, bike 112.4 mi and run 26.6 mi.

I have noticed myself really grow after running this race and I feel that doing these endurance sports will continue to help me grow. This won’t be the last you hear of running and biking = )

Take it easy!

-YoYo

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