I took the cold and nasty winter off. My body is simply not willing to be subjected to runs at well-below-freezing temperatures. That said, I have made a few runs in snowstorms and I got sleeted on once, but I generally don’t run below 30 degrees.

I started up again in early March, quickly ramping up my distance from 2 miles to 6. I managed to pull an 8-miler one Saturday. That 75 minute stretch was probably one of my worst runs ever. Feeling the pain from that, I turned to the Runner’s World website and got myself a decent half marathon training schedule.

Having a set, planned schedule has really helped. Previously, I would just go out and run whatever number of miles seemed good - and I had no restrictions. I should never have quadrupled my distance in only 4 weeks - I was just asking for injury.

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