Goal: New running shoes

My wonderful husband (and probably the only person that reads this blog) has challenged me with finding a running program for myself. If I complete it then I get new running shoes! I am sooo excited about this! I love a good challenge and I really really really want new running shoes. My little brother use to think that the shoes were the thing that determined how fast you ran. While trying on shoes in a store, he would running around the store. He would then report on if they made him run fast or not. It was the cutest thing ever especially since he was about 5 years old at the time. Anyway so the running program that I am looking at is a 18 week half marathon training program. My husband and I have agreed that if I do 6 weeks then I get shoes!! Yippee! I plan to complete all 18 weeks though. Today I ran two miles that kicked my butt. I am still getting over a cold so my nose ran the whole time and my lungs burned. I wanted to stop as soon as I started but I pushed myself for two miles. The road by my house is closed so running was a pleasure without cars passing at 50 mph constantly.