re: Running advice requested for new runner (updated with new shoes!)

There was an Ironman in my neighborhood this weekend. That blows my mind. But gets my kind of amped to try and push myself past my limits. I just can't stay concentrated on something like that for more than 2 months or so though. And I think it takes a little more effort than that . I trained for a half marathon twice. Both times I got to around the 8 mile mark. You really have to dedicate time during the week, but especially for your "long" run on the weekend. I always end up getting hammered one weekend and am too hungover to do my long run and don't have time during the week. Then I just fall off the wagon. It's pretty a pretty standard cycle for everything I do fitness wise . But I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I fully have confidence that if I ever stick with it, I can accomplish it. I think most people can. They just have to get the mental part down to where they believe in themselves and push themselves.