I was worried since I haven’t been running or working out in any kind of structured fashion the past few weeks that I was late to the half marathon training party.

But like I said last week, I felt like I should be able to do something in ten weeks of work, and when I looked at Runner’s World, that’s exactly the length of the half marathon program I found.

I’m going back to the Runner’s World plan because it worked really well for me training for Chicago last summer…and I’m shooting for a sub-2 half marathon.

It’s not a hard and fast goal - if I don't finish sub-2 I won’t be heartbroken.

I think the New York City Half should be pretty great and I don’t necessarily need a time goal for this one.

But I ran a half marathon in 2:02 before, and if I train here shooting to break two I figure I’ll at least come close to that, and that would be good enough for me.

The key will be that interval work that served me so well this summer - if I’m coming close to the times set for the intervals I’ll be happy. It’ll make me stronger for the half, even if I’m finishing in more than two hours.

But the tricky part is finding the time to run those intervals.

I don’t love running in the dark, but maybe there will be enough cleared track space where I can do some speed work after I get home from work once a week without having to run on sidewalks/streets.

I’m daunted by another training session starting here.

It was hard doing that for the first time with an inflexible work schedule for Chicago.

If you asked me right now I might not try for another race after the NYC Half…including any marathons.

But that might be just because I’m so tired as I’m writing this and anything seems like too much effort right now.

The nice thing about this training session starting is it’s after I recharge my batteries and have a couple of weeks off.

If the half marathon training is going well, who knows, maybe I’ll add something else like that May marathon I was looking at.

At least one daunting aspect is taken care of - I have a plan.

I no longer have to worry about what I’m going to do - I just need to find the time to do it.

It starts on January 5.