Dedicated to my brother, Bill(y)

One of the reasons this post is dedicated to my brother Billy is...well...I stole the idea of blogging about running from him. Billy has decided that he, too, would run the half marathon and I probably wouldn't actually be training if it wasn't for him. What prompted me to get the process started was reading his blog for a week and realizing "if he can do it, I can do it too". And only partially in the mean little sister way, mostly in the Thanks for inspiring me! way. This 'thanks for inspiring me' is the other reason the post is dedicated to him. You see, left to my own devices I would rationalize away the training period, "oh I can start tomorrow" "it's too snowy/icy/cold/nice out to run today". But Billy sets his sights on something and then gets going, there is no over-planning or over-analyzing, just jumping in and going for it. To read about Billy's adventures in the journey to the half marathon please see the link under the "blogs I frequent" heading.