Inspiration & Training for a half marathon.

Here is my running path on how I got to a half marathon(13.1), one mile at a time.

Here is a picture of me (middle right) my brothers (right and left) and my friend (middle left) at Space Coast.

 I wanted to run a half after I saw my mom run a full marathon at Space Coast.  There was a kid 

 at  Space Coast that was 12years old and he ran the half.   I was inspired to run Space Coast the next year.   But mom said she would have to see me train and work hard before I signed up.  She said I had to run a local race first.  During this time we lived in Athens GA.  I heard about a Chick~fil~a race that was going to be held in our city.  I learned if I attended 10 training runs then I could be entered for free.  This would be the perfect race for me to show mom that I was a serious runner.  

I printed off the Chick~fil~a training plan and posted it on the fridge.  And off running I went.  

On Wednesdays we drove to Sandy Creek Nature Center where we met up with Ms. Katie for our training runs.  She would have us run trails through the park.  At first I did not like the trails but they grew on me and I enjoyed the nature that I saw while running.  I always had to lead my mom because she would get lost on the trails.  

 Because I was running lots of miles mom would make me eat healthy foods and would make me shakes.  In my shakes she would add milk, PB2 (which is powdered peanutbutter), and yogurt.  All these things helped fuel my body.