Weet Weet Walt Disney World Marathon!!!

So I guess I was supposed to have posted on this blog back in early '08 when I was also "training" for the Kentucky Derby Festival Marathon.  Well, there's two things that didn't happen.  Not only did I not post, and keep a log of my workouts and whatnot, I did not workout.  Which was stupid.  A week before the marathon (which I signed up for in November of '07 and got my best friend to sign up for as well) I realized how screwed I was having not trained...AT ALL.  So the Monday before I went out and ran 4.5 miles cold.  Then Thursday I ran 2, you know, to taper down from all the wicked mileage I'd built up.  Then, the race was on Saturday.  I knew I was screwed even harder.  Even though I ended up switching to the half-marathon, 13.1 miles is a lot if you haven't been running somewhat regularly.  The first six miles sucked my balls off, it was all hills.  By mile 8 my arches were cramping, and from mile 11-12.5 I kept having to walk, or stop completely as I was squeezing my butt cheeks so tight so as not to shit my pants.  But I finished the half-marathon in a record breaking time of 2:50:37.  So that's something.  The funny thing was, is that, because I was registered for the full marathon, I still had a full marathon bib number.  If you ran the half your bib was blue, if you were running the full marathon, your bib was orange.  Anyway, so here I come little ol' me sprinting toward the finish line as if that was the pace I was keeping the whole time, and as you cross the finish line they announce your name and what not.  So as I cross the finish line I hear, "And finishing the Full Marathon with an amazing time of 2:50:37, Ashley Ann Hale."  Yes that would be amazing, I thought to myself, as a woman placed a medal around my neck for completing the FULL marathon.  For a moment I thought, I could just take this medal and tell people I ran the full thing...but guilt stirred in my stomach and I had to squeeze my butt cheeks even harder than before.  Through heavy breaths I said to that lady, I only ran the half.  She awkwardly took the medal off my neck and replaced it with the medal for the HALF and said, "well congrats anyway."  All this being said, I have signed up to run The Walt Disney World Marathon on January 11th, 2009, and I intend fully to not be an idiot this time around with training.  My official start date for training begins next Monday, but I plan to start this week with some 2-3 milers, and keep track of training on this here blog.  So look out streets of New York, I'm coming for you.  For reals this time!!!!