8 week half marathon plan

Week	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun	Total
1	2mi		2mi	:30xt		4mi		8mi
	:27		:25			:50		1:47
2			2.5mi	2.5mi			5mi	10mi
			:30	:28			:58	1:56
3		3mi		3 mi		6mi		12mi
		:41		:39		1:25		2:45
4	:30xt	3.5mi		3.5mi		7mi		14mi
		:44		:44		1:33		3:01
5		4mi				8mi		12mi
		:51				1:42		2:33
6		4.5mi				4.5mi	9mi	18mi
		:57				:55	2:04	3:56
7				5mi			3mi	8mi
				1:05			:50	1:55
8		rest	rest	2mi	rest	rest	13.1mi	17.1mi

So, feeling like the full was too much, I switched my registration to the half marathon in Vegas. Now I have 8 weeks for that, I feel it is feasible, so I'm doing a real 8 week plan for this starting NOW.

Mileage tracker for Marathon Training... 12 weeks to Rock and Roll Las Vegas

Week	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun	Total
1		1.8		3.2		3.4		8.4
2		2.5		b :30		b 1:40	b :20	2.5
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Just running, so, simpler training plan for now.... just going to track/plan out my mileage.

Mountain Man Half Ironman

So, looks like I never posted about this race... better do it now before I forget more about it. 

My training up to the race was very much lacking... all year it's been lacking due to different priorities.  I'm not sure at this point whether I will continue to do triathlons or not... I think I probably should, but maybe not as intensely. 

So, the race.  Going in I thought it would be tough for me to make the cutoff for the run.  I had something like 4:45 to do it, but my previous best for the swim and bike at that distance (my only 1/2) was 5:30 or something like that... I basically had to swim and bike in the time it took me just to bike in Boise.  I nearly made it, but came up a little bit short... and I had already resigned myself to not going on to the run, so I think somewhat I made myself miss the cutoff so I wouldn't "have" to.

My swim time was 48:32, which is slower than Boise, but not too bad.  The bike time was 3:57, which was way faster than Boise, 14.2 mph vs. 11-something.  Overall I came into the second transition at 4:52, missing the cutoff by about 7 minutes.  I don't really know if they would have stopped me from going on to the run either... didn't seem like it, but I was just done. 

So, I took my second DNF in a triathlon, but I don't feel bad about it.  I made a big improvement in my bike time, had I made the cutoff and struggled my way through the run, I would have probably improved my overall 1/2 pr by about an hour.