I’ve decided to make this a more concrete goal, by selecting my first half-marathon.

And, looking over the calendar of events in the Portland area for Spring ‘06, I select the Race for the Roses half-marathon, on Sunday, April 9, 2006.

Kinda scary, actually going out on a limb and picking one. The week before that race is the Bridge to Bridge, I think (they don’t have the dates selected for next year as of this posting), and I was planning on trying the 10K for the B2B next year… well.

At any rate, plenty of time to train and finalize. I’m just going to focus on finishing. My longest run now is 7-7.5 miles; I just have to be able to double that distance over the next almost 5 months. No problem…