Hi ladies - I've been missing for a while, but will be back next week Anyways, even with my crazy schedule I have been getting in some run training for my 1/2 mary in November. As I'm usually pretty tired from work and not able to do as much running during the week as I like, I have adopted a run4/walk1 minute routine during my long runs. I'm trying to decide if I should keep this up for the race or to switch back to my old method (run bw/n aid stations (about 3 miles) and walk the aid station). Right now I'm coming out of the runs feeling like I have a lot left to give, speed and distance rise. I'm up to 8mi LSD. My goal is to get in 2 runs of the 12 - 13mi variety before the race. Right now I'm looking at my options as:

1) run4/walk1
2) run 9/walk1
3) run the whole thing except aid stations
4) up the tempo on the run for 4min/slow run for 1min

I know I can run the complete distance - that's not the issue. It's getting my time down. Please let me know if you ladies have any opinions. As many of you know, I'm not exactly a speed demon, better than last year, but still slow.

Thanks!