Well it's official now. BF and I shelled out the race fee yesterday to sign up for the Virginia Beach Rock N Roll Half Marathon over Labor Day weekend.

I'm super excited that it's official now. Va. Beach is one of my favorite races. I mean first off, it's at the beach and you finish running down the boardwalk with the ocean at your side. How cool is that? Secondly, it's extremely flat, so you can PR easily (even if you have strep throat and have to take many medicines before running...believe me, I know.) Third, the expo for this thing is huuuuuuge. You could spend hours wandering around and getting all sorts of free stuff!

I'm also super pumped for this year because knock on wood, I think I've left the knee injuries behind me. My knee has been really strong lately and I haven't had to tape it on a run in months. For those of you who've been reading a while, knee injuries kept me from this race last year, so I'm excited to get back and try to PR on the course.

My time to beat is 2:17:and change set during the National Half Marathon, a much hillier course, which had the advantage of moderate temps. Va. Beach is always a hot race.

I put the finishing touches our training plans over the weekend (although I seemed to have lost the first page of mine already...greeeeat...starting off reallll well here Jess) and I'm excited to get started. I'll most likely talk about the training plans in more detail later this week. So if you have specific questions you want me to answer let me know.

As for this week, I'm teaching yoga three times...ooof. That's a lot of yoga. I'm filling in for a co-worker tonight and then from here on out I'll be teaching two classes each week instead of one. I think it will only help my training.

Anyway, that's all I've got for today. Happy Monday!