I've been following the hal Higdon's half marathon training program for the novice the past 6 weeks almost religiously. I moved the days back so long runs are on Saturdays adn I usualy skip Sundays. My cross training is always Cathe muscle endurance weights and I do speed work or hills on Wednesdays and skip the strength.

I skipped last week though because of vacation. I skipped the 10K, but did the 9 mile yesterday. It was an awful run. I didn't hydrate on top of my vacation hyates. Saturday will be better. The rest of the long runs have gone very well.

The half is Aug 2nd, 2 weeks!!! I waiver from scared to confident as the time approaches. By the way. Through this training I have felt very good physically, but my wieght has stayed at exactly the same throughout until I started these pills. We'll see how it goes. Hopefully losing weight will also bring down my times for the 5K in Sept.