I’m so excited for November 3! I will probably be working my first official half marathon: the Silver Falls Half in Silverton, Oregon.
Think about working below waterfalls, by a forest of fir bushes, within the pouring rain. Sounds blissful. The race description says it was voted “Greatest Oregon Path Half Marathon,” so I’m anticipating to be WOW’d. We run a lot of the race on gravel or paved trails with minimal technicality.
I’ve run 13 miles in a day earlier than – a couple of instances throughout Hood to Coast throughout the 3 Capes Relay, however by no means . My longest coaching run earlier than I developed a stress fracture final 12 months was 12 miles.
Can I do a half? I do know I can. Will it take me ceaselessly and a day? Maybe, however that’s okay. As they are saying, the longer you are taking to complete the race, the extra you get out of your race entry.
Silver Falls looks as if a well-liked race, and the one motive I signed up for it’s that I used to be driving the relay excessive after Hood to Coast and a bunch of my runner buddies had been doing it. If my runner buddies jumped off a bridge, I in all probability would too – so long as there was a race on the backside. The half marathon was 98% full after I registered again on August 26th and is now full.
Silver Falls races are a weekend of enjoyable and consist of 5 completely different distances to select from – 5k, 7-miler, half marathon, marathon, and a 50k. All however the 5k and marathon are offered out, so you will want to rush and register in case you are excited by working.
Since this can be a path run, my working group and I’ve been attempting to run the restricted quantity of trails close to us. The one choice that’s out there to us (with out driving fairly far) is to run logging roads. Fortunately, Silver Falls isn’t a technical course, so working on gravel is great coaching for us.
Working with a bunch of buddies needs to be superb too. I’ve run loads of races with buddies, however we by no means caught collectively for lengthy throughout the race. Who is aware of what’s going to occur throughout this race. It is going to be nice to see so many encouraging, acquainted, and smiling faces.
I’m undecided if I’m the one particular person on the market who seems to be for YouTube movies on racecourses earlier than I run them. I watched the half marathon racecourse, and it seems that we now have to run up some switchback staircases. YIKES. I’m not wanting ahead to this however will add some stairs into my coaching.
In keeping with the web site, it’s wet and chilly throughout this occasion yearly. Yippee. Time to lastly spend money on some gaiters to guard my ft from rain and dust, and a greater rain jacket. Fortunate for me, as soon as the preliminary shock wears off, I get pleasure from working within the rain.
I can’t wait to see all the waterfalls, run with my working buddies, and do a brand new distance. Additionally, I’ll discover somebody to speak to about their web site. As an internet developer, that website hurts deep in my soul – it is extremely old-fashioned. Be aware to self: convey a couple of enterprise playing cards together with my Gu’s.
