Running Bugs... but not the gross kind

I've gotten the running fever back. It's been tough, because, well, the heat makes me a wienie. I haven't signed up for the Disney Princess Half yet, but you can do so as of last week, but I gotta say, all of you that were gung ho about doing it with me are dropping like flies. I won't be happy if I have to run this race by myself. ;)

I was thinking (always a bad thing to do) the other day about my Bucket List. And running and I mean, actually running an entire half marathon is on there. When I started this running journey a year ago, it seemed like I could be happy with just that, but now, I don't know. It seems to me if you can put in the proper training for a half, you can certainly do it for a full. And now maybe a half isn't good enough. You see, I am driven by accomplishments, but am not an overachiever. I'm more of a half-ass kind of girl. I don't like to push myself. I don't like to deal with pain. I like to do as little as possible and get by. With running, I am seeing, it isn't good enough. You HAVE to push yourself, because, it's all mental. But, I like goals. I like being able to say, "Hey yeah, I've completed 13.1 miles, what have you done?" But then, I have my realistic husband who is right behind me saying, "Yeah, but you didn't RUN the whole thing." Talk about competitive. I want to run the whole damn thing just to shut him up.

I saw this article the other day, and I thought, "Wow. That's what I need to make it that 26.2 miles." I even went and told Philly, which is rare, because when I tell him outrageous things like this is, he is very quick to pull me back down and I fully expected the response of, "WHAT? You can't even run 5 miles without stopping." But, he didn't. Maybe he wasn't really listening to what I was saying. But then. I thought about it. I don't have the time to train right now. I am not a morning person, and I cannot drag myself out of the bed at 4am to go run. I wish I could, I feel better when I do, but it just ain't happening.

I can always find those excuses on why not to run. Like today, I am not running because I ripped up my toe with my toenail yesterday and it freaking hurts. I feel like that is a legitimate excuse though, since I'm not one to put myself through unnecessary pain.

I just don't know how to go about training properly for this, I want to be able to knock it out of the park. I want a sub 2:30 on the Disney Half next year. Which would be shaving about 33 min off my total time, and if I run the whole thing, shouldn't be a problem. Right?

Any words of wisdom or advice?? I could definitely use it.