Half Marathon update

I have news about that half that I've been raving about.

I've been posting for the last two months about my activity, including the TYS10K run that I felt like crap about.  Here's what's happened since:

• After the 10K, I haven't run.  Not once.  I was so bummed out for the first week that I just couldn't bring myself to even think about running.  I don't even have a good excuse for it.  I was just really, really depressed over it.  I bought new running shoes and everything, believing that maybe having shiny new shoes would do it.  Nope.
• Then we went to Hawaii.  We got in lots of other kinds of activity, but no running.
• While in Hawaii, I got a wicked bad sunburn on the back of my legs on the last day.  Even the backs of my knees were fried.  Bad enough that sitting, standing, walking, or movement of any kind was a very big challenge.  It took almost a full week before I was able to even think about exercise again.  Went to yoga, and realized just how tight my muscles and fried skin were from a week of doing pretty much nothing but healing.

So.  These things have not been so helpful in training for a half marathon.  Three weeks without running, with the race only two weeks away, is simply not realistic.  After consultation with runner friends and seeing if there was any possibility of training enough in that short of a time, I've officially come to the conclusion that I will not be able to run the half marathon this year.

If you thought I was bummed out about the TYS10K results, you have no idea just how depressed I am about this decision.

However, I've decided to defer my run until the fall.  I haven't decided which run I will sign up for yet.  I had really been looking forward to the Toronto Women's Half as being my first :( 

Now that my skin is doing better, I've been doing some cardio activity and stretching to get my legs back into some sense of flexibility and ready to run again.  I'm working on developing a proper training plan, since clearly my last plan of "just run when you feel like it" wasn't a very good one.  Sadly, I have classes on all of the nights that the Running Room training clinics are going on, so it looks like I'm on my own.

As I develop a plan (and actually follow through with it), I will post my progress and helpful info for you, so that hopefully you won't get caught in the same place that I'm in now.

Sigh :(