Oh, they weren't talking about the chocolate bar...
Apparently I've signed up for a half marathon in March.
Tachikawa city (where I work, I live one town over) is holding a half marathon on March 3. A poster was put up in the office advertising it last month. I asked if anyone from the office was participating, and apparently that turned into me entering (along with 3 other people).
21 km (21.0975km to be exact, 13.1094 miles for those of you on a clunky, outdated distance measuring system). That's a bit longer than I prefer to run. I was a "distance" runner on the track team in high school, but "distance" there meant the half mile or mile race (or the two mile on occasion). I even joined the cross country team my Senior year for races of about 5 km. I didn't run much after that, except for short periods where I would occasionally start jogging again, but Minnesota (and Hokkaido) winters break that up pretty well.
Five or so years ago I joined Chitose's JAL marathon 10k division, and started running for that. I finished with a respectable 44 minutes or so. I figure with a bit of training, I can probably do the half marathon in the 2 hr 15 min range (+/- 15 minutes). I'm a little older than when I did the 10K, and doubling the distance will slow my pace a bit, I figure. I'm not exactly looking forward to it- 21K is further than I really want to run. Ah well, good training for the zombie apocalypse. And having a race looming provides more motivation to keep running now that the temp is dropping.
And the title of this post? For those who don't remember, or are too young to know it, a Marathon chocolate bar (in the US, there was another bar of the same name in England) was a foot long bar (I was living in a country with clunky, outdated measuring system) that was sold from about 1973-1981. It wasn't actually any bigger volume-wise than other chocolate bars of the time, but was made of a couple braided pieces, so it was long. There was even a ruler marked on the outside of the package.
So... short journal entry, but I gotta run.
Tachikawa city (where I work, I live one town over) is holding a half marathon on March 3. A poster was put up in the office advertising it last month. I asked if anyone from the office was participating, and apparently that turned into me entering (along with 3 other people).
21 km (21.0975km to be exact, 13.1094 miles for those of you on a clunky, outdated distance measuring system). That's a bit longer than I prefer to run. I was a "distance" runner on the track team in high school, but "distance" there meant the half mile or mile race (or the two mile on occasion). I even joined the cross country team my Senior year for races of about 5 km. I didn't run much after that, except for short periods where I would occasionally start jogging again, but Minnesota (and Hokkaido) winters break that up pretty well.
Five or so years ago I joined Chitose's JAL marathon 10k division, and started running for that. I finished with a respectable 44 minutes or so. I figure with a bit of training, I can probably do the half marathon in the 2 hr 15 min range (+/- 15 minutes). I'm a little older than when I did the 10K, and doubling the distance will slow my pace a bit, I figure. I'm not exactly looking forward to it- 21K is further than I really want to run. Ah well, good training for the zombie apocalypse. And having a race looming provides more motivation to keep running now that the temp is dropping.
And the title of this post? For those who don't remember, or are too young to know it, a Marathon chocolate bar (in the US, there was another bar of the same name in England) was a foot long bar (I was living in a country with clunky, outdated measuring system) that was sold from about 1973-1981. It wasn't actually any bigger volume-wise than other chocolate bars of the time, but was made of a couple braided pieces, so it was long. There was even a ruler marked on the outside of the package.
So... short journal entry, but I gotta run.