Reality Check

I've given up the fool's errand of a sub 2:00 half marathon at the Rock N' Roll in Virginia Beach. I knew going in that a significant chunk of my training would take place in the Philippines but my notorious ambition ignored this slight obstacle. It won't get me down but with about 4 weeks until race day my new goal will be to just enjoy the festivities of the race and to not get too competitive with LCT :)

Below is a summary of my runs since I've been in Asia. It's painful to record here but hey, part of this blog's purpose is to keep me honest so...eh, here it goes:

July 3 2007 - Run with cousin MCP
2.0 miles

Jul 6 2007 - Solo run in Taiwan
2.1 miles | 18:05 time | 8:36 min/mil

Jul 8 2007 - Solo run in Taiwan
2.16 miles | 18:27 time | 8:31 min/mil

Jul 19 2007 - Run with LNJ
2.09 miles | 22:01 time | 10:30 min/mil

Jul 20 2007 - Run with LNJ
3 miles | 27:27 time | 9:56 min/mil

Jul 25 2007 - Solo run in Phils
3 miles | 26:48 time | 8:59 min/mil

Jul 31 2007
4.16 miles | 37:29 time | 8:59 min/mil

Aug 1 2007
3 miles | 26:19 time | 8:50 min/mil

Total : ~ 18 Miles out of my scheduled 87 miles!!

Holy !@#$&*!!!

To be fair, however, I'm proud of the fact that I've gotten my ass out of bed as much as I have given the fact that both in Taiwan and the Philippines at around 5am, it's a 'cool' 85 degrees and humid as all hell! Also, despite a crazy aerobic adjustment of running in some serious smog along the river banks, I've managed to keep up my base level of fitness...definitely not race ready but good enough if I keep things up or increase my mileage until I head back to the U.S. just in time for the half.

Damn this blog and 'keeping me honest' crap...

As they say around here: Mabuhay!!