So You Wanna Run A Half Marathon…
Training's underway! We’re 1 week in to a 14-week block for this race. Myself a small group of runners are working for the Secret City Half Marathon together this November, trying to improve our bodies and our times. I still have room for a couple more ladies to join if this sounds like something you’d enjoy!
If this sounds like you, DM me: you've run a few 5Ks. Maybe a 10K too. You've got some mileage under you, you know what race day nerves feel like, and now you're eyeing a half marathon. That jump—from 10K to 13.1—is a bigger one than people expect. It's not just "a little more." It's a different kind of training block, and doing it without a plan built for your actual current fitness is how people either get hurt or show up undertrained and miserable for the last four miles.
I hate seeing people train inefficiently for a race. I hate people going willy nilly for really long runs when they have no business doing so this early in the training block. I hate when people don’t fuel and complain they hit the wall. We as runners are better than that! Get some help if it’s your first.
This is the gap a coach closes. Not because you can't figure it out on your own eventually—you probably could, with enough trial and error. But "eventually" isn't free. It costs you injuries, burnout, and races that go worse than they should have. A guided jump from 10K to half marathon distance is so much safer and more efficient than winging it, because someone's actually watching your mileage build, your recovery, and your fueling instead of you guessing at all three at once.
But it's not just about safety—it's more fun this way, too. Having people to train with, people going through the exact same thing you are, is valuable. Someone else had a long run today too, and they want to talk about it just as much as you do. You start swapping notes, trying out local run clubs together to build mileage, texting each other before a hard workout. A little group like this is a fun way to make friends, honestly, and that's a big part of what running is supposed to be about—getting outside and actually enjoying your life, not just logging miles alone, miserably.
That's what this small group is: a real training plan built for exactly this jump, a free fueling guide, and a weekly group call to check in together. Not a huge public thing — just a few of us, training toward the same race on November 14th.
If that's you—a few 5Ks in, a 10K behind you, and a half marathon starting to feel like the next right step—reach out this week. I'd love to have you. It’s time to get going and build that mileage!
-bk