Help! I have been training for a half marathon coming up Oct 1 for 12 weeks. I have 4 weeks left of intense training before I kick back for a week before the race. I have ZIP motivation! I have been using my weeks as follows:
monday: interval training for an hour. High interval is 8.0, low is 6.5 (at 3 minutes each), bi's tris and back weights
Tuesday: Eliptical for an hour or swim for an hour
Wednesday: mile warm up, 3 miles at threshhold pace (7.5mph), 1 mile cool down, shoulder weights, core exercises
Thursday: 3-4 mile easy run or swim or eliptical
Friday: Long run ( is at 10 miles @ 6.5) Back/chest exercises
Saturday: something fun like soccer, bike ride, roller blade
Sunday: off
I'm so bored and I think whats making it hard is my running is all on the tread. I have nowhere safe or long enough for my long runs nearby and I am on my own with kids during till evening so I need the childcare at the gym. I'm beginning to hate the gym! I have been increasing my intensity each week so that these numbers change .2-.4 mph higher each week which is helping.
I need some pep talk for these remaining weeks! I'm so close and I'm doing well. I feel well prepared to the point that if I ran the sucker today I'd do fine. I just need to maintain for a few more weeks.

I was going to suggest you run in a new place... change your route... but looks like the tread mill is only way to do it... Doing your long run on the tread mill has to be tough...

I don't know what to tell you... to make it more fun... except... you are 3/4 of the way there... I always do ok the first half of my long run... then just past 1/2 way I feel really good... then as I approach 3/4 of the way there I am at a low... when I can smell the finish I get excited and feel better through the finish... so perhaps this is similiar... you are almost to 2 weeks to go... where you can "smell" the finish...

Keep up the good work... and finish strong!