Busy weekend

The Swan's nest underwent a major facelift this weekend. And the results are fabulous. But more on that later tonight - with pictures! Don't you love the suspense? What I really want to share with the world today, as a sort of public commitment that will hopefully keep me accountable, is that I've decided to run the ING Half Marathon in Atlanta on March 21, 2010. And I think I've convinced my brother to run it with me, which is very exciting. We ran my first half marathon together over Thanksgiving 2006 and it was a great experience. He was part of the reason I was able to run the entire 13.1 miles - I hit a wall around mile 11 and he just kept encouraging me and telling me I could do it. And I did. This time I'm in better shape, so I won't need his encouragement as much, but it'll be really nice to have his company for 13.1 miles! Yesterday I went out and did a 9.1 mile run. I've gradually been increasing my long runs over the past 4 weeks from 6 miles, to 7 miles to 8.5 miles and then 9 yesterday. My goal is to run 10.5 this weekend and then 12 the following weekend. So here's to my third half marathon! Anyone else want to join us? Here's the info on my run from yesterday.... Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 1000 ft Location: Decatur, GA, Elev. Gain: -3 ft Date: 02/21/10 Up/Downhill: [+748/-751] Time: 05:38 PM Difficulty: 3.4 / 5.0 Weather: Partly Cloudy 61 F temp; 28% humidity 61 F heat index; winds SSE 9 mph Performance Distance: 9.11 miles Time: 1:41:06 Speed: 5.4 mph Pace: 11' 06 /mi Calories: 883 Map Elevation (ft) Pace (min/mile) Splits Mile Pace (min/mile) Speed (mph) Elevation Gain actual +/- avg actual +/- avg 1 11' 12 +0' 06 5.3 -0.1 -7 ft 2 10' 44 -0' 22 5.6 +0.2 +26 ft 3 12' 26 +1' 20 4.8 -0.6 -23 ft 4 10' 10 -0' 56 5.9 +0.5 -23 ft 5 10' 32 -0' 34 5.7 +0.3 -7 ft 6 11' 30 +0' 24 5.2 -0.2 -46 ft 7 11' 36 +0' 30 5.2 -0.2 +65 ft 8 11' 07 +0' 01 5.4 -0.0 +39 ft 9 10' 37 -0' 29 5.7 +0.2 -66 ft end 11' 04 -0' 02 5.4 +0.0 +36 ft Versus average of 11' 06 min/mile

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