My Challenge

As I begin my training program for CCFA’s Team Challenge I needed to set my personal goal. This is necessary so that I know what pace I should be doing my training runs at and it helps to motivate my training.

My goal: to complete the Miami Half-Marathon in 1 hour and 34 minutes.

This is a high goal on many levels. To start with it is my PR (personal record, the fastest I have done this distance). The race is only 6 weeks from now, so trying to obtain a PR with such short training time will be a challenge. However, simply achieving a PR is not the reason I chose this goal.

I last ran this time in 2002. A time when I was is great physical condition as a carryover from my NCAA track career and long before I ever had any UC symptoms. To accomplish my goal would be to prove that I am in the same physical condition now as I was in before experiencing any UC symptoms.

This goal will motivate me in the next 6 weeks of training and push me towards positive results in Miami.