Vegas training has begun!

Today is the official start – 111 days out – of my training for the Vegas half…excuse me, the Rock ‘n’ Roll Las Vegas Marathon and Half Marathon powered by Zappos.com.  {rolls eyes}  I’ve run it before (badly and slowly), several years ago, and bailed out at the 6 mile mark about 3 years ago, but I’m going all in this time.  I mean, aiming for a 1:30 half marathon all in.  And with that, I introduce you to my newest toy, Runkeeper.com! 

It’s an app on the iPhone that uses GPS to track your mileage, speed, elevation, and uses audio cues to keep you up to speed on your progress.  It also provides links to the workout (you’ll see this shortly).  A lot of this is in the MapmyRun app and software, the main advantages seeming to be the audio cues and real time elevation tracking.  I prefer the MapmyRun social media tie-ins, but RK seems to work okay with Facebook, although I haven’t been able to get it to tweet yet.  Anyhoo, I’m off to see District 9, but I can’t leave without offering up my first RunKeeper workout:

UPDATE: Since I’m not convinced that worked, and it only appears to be a map link if it did, >:-( here’s the scoop: 3.66 miles around Bellevue at 8:16 pace – 8:45 first mile, 7:45 second, 7:37 third, then I struggled with a 9:38 pace the last .66.