Help me decide.. half marathon this weekend?

If you want to do the race, and think you can do it just to enjoy it and be surrounded by people but GO YOUR TRAINING PACE ... (with a 1-mile warmup ) ... then by all means do it as a training run.

To do a half-mary as an unplanned RACE in the middle of mary training puts a little too much stress on things, I think.

I would run it, but I wouldn't race it. Maybe at a faster pace than a training run, but not much faster. If it takes you any longer to recover than recovery from your training run would take, then you went too hard.

If you want to be anal about the distance, run a mile before or after.

I would do it.

Warm up, cool down, you'll have more than the 14.

If you recognize that your paces will be slow for the rest of the week, but still shoot to hit the miles, it'll be a good test of your fitness. 

I would run it as well; good fitness test and I wouldn't worry about the difference of .9 miles (assuming you do no warm-up/cooldown).

Shane

Thanks for the input guys!!  It looks like I'll be doing the half this weekend.  I just wanted to make sure it wasn't a dumb idea. 

Stop it, you're exciting me. 

x2. You're paying the fee, RACE it.  You wanna run don't pay the fee.  

Ben Moore Memorial Half in Annapolis on Sunday.  $35 entry fee!  I'm suprised their permit was approved.

Hmm, they still have time enough to cancel it!

Go for it!  Could be a roling course depending on where they do it.

Can't see a downside.  Have a great time!

I went, raced it, and am thrilled with my time   Pace wound up being a 1:25 / mile faster than my last 12 mile training run... yipee.  

My legs are tired today and I'll probably hurt for a few more days, but it was definitely worth it to see how the marathon training is coming along and I had a blast!  2nd in AG 20-29, but unfortunately they only gave prizes to 1st. 

Why thank you!!   I'm not going to do a race report since it was pretty uneventful, didn't wear my garmin, and I have nothing too interesting to report.  

However, I do treat every water stop like I'm in the desert and it's my last chance at water.  I need to work on that part... I could save some time there

Great job, congrats. And this is EXACTLY why you race a race and don't just run it!