Running the half-marathon
I’m going to participate in Warsaw’s Half-Marathon which takes place on March 25 — three weeks from now. For me this is the first time I take part in an official half-marathon. The running length is about 21km, and the time limit is 3 hours (the runners who don’t complete the course in this time have to abandon). My main target is to just run it to the end, but as a secondary goal I’d like to do it in under 2h30.
Since today I began training, which consists in running in a park which is not too far from where I live. So I have about 3 weeks for the training; I’ll post a table with the distance I run during this time.
Initially I wanted to run a full marathon (42km), but this is an ambitious goal for a sedentary developer like me. Compared to a marathon, a half-marathon is much easier (more than twice easier).
Here is the starting list where I appear under the name ‘preda’, with T-shirt number 465. It looks it will be crowded, with about 1000 runners.
Training:
| Day | Distance (km) | Time (min) | Speed (km/h) |
| 1 | 5 | - | - |
| 2 | 9 | 60 | 9 |
| 5 | 12.5 | 83 | 9 |
| 7 | 12.5 | 78 | 9.6 |
| 10 | 16 | 103 | 9.3 |
| 12 | 12.5 | 78 | 9.6 |
| 14 | 16 | 97 | 9.9 |