Walking the half?

[wdw4us]

I walked it in 2008 and again in 2009. My kids jogged it and were only 10 min ahead of me across the finish line. We were in different corrals this year so they were 12 min ahead of me.

I worked very hard this year doing a log of miles, at least 4-5 times a week. Between 15-20 racewalking miles a week. Lost lots of belly fat and built up a good endurance. When the race was done this year, I felt better than last year and better than my kids, I'm 54 and their 27 and 30.

Not sure about your pace, check out mapmyrun.com and find your route then work on speed/endurance.

Windwalker on this board will find you and make comments to help you out. He also has his own blog about racewalking...

Here is the link:

http://pandaendurance.blogspot.com/2009/01/marathon-aftermath-keep-moving-forward.html

You legs will be strong, your butt will be hard and it is a lot of hard work to racewalk. I think good form at times is harder than running it.

denise

 

[SamSam]

You legs will be strong, your butt will be hard and it is a lot of hard work to racewalk. I think good form at times is harder than running it.

denise

So True!

 

[#1 Pocahontas]

I just walked most of the Princess 1/2 marathon.

I mainly walked most of my training with jogs and sprints here and there.

I ended up jogging a lot more of the race than I thought I would, more than I ever had while training. Once I crossed the start line everyone was jogging/running and I just got swept up with them. After about the first mile I would walk (fast) but it felt like everyone around me was running/jogging so I'd only take about a 30 second break then jog again. I'd say that lasted until we went through the castle which was about half way. Once we were out of the Magic Kingdom I felt like I was with a totally different crowd. LOL Maybe I actually was with a totally different crowd because I kept stopping to take pictures with the characters and most of the joggers just kept going. Anyway, after the half way point I was suddenly with mostly walkers. By the time I hit mile 10 there were hardly any joggers left with me. I was also just walking at that point.

I was so AFRAID of being swept because I had trained almost always walking and I was always around 15-15:60 minute miles. I thought for sure I'd be swept. However I trimmed almost an entire 30 minutes off of my time during the marathon. I think it was the adrenaline and the desire to keep up with the crowd.

Walk it! You'll do great!