Half Marathon Training is on track

Made this plan to train for the Disneyland Half marathon. I want to at least say that I've run one race in my life where I made some sort of plan and stuck to it regarding the training. I'm sure I can beat my last half marathon run since it was so hot that time, but I want to annihilate my PR! That is, in a safe manner ;) E=Mc^2 heard that one long run per week increasing at 10% weekly would be a safe way to train up to the distance, so I'm going for that. Here's the progress so far.

7-11-2009: first long run, Omaha, NE. Got up just before sunrise, and my brother ran the first part with me. SUPER hilly - have never run hills before. My whole trunk was sore for a couple days which really surprised me. Ran from my parent's house to my aunt/uncle's house. I was up all night beforehand I suppose worrying about the run, wasn't sure if I could make it. But we mapped it out and I knew by the numbers that it was doable. Just strange to be running in a place I'm not used to running. Saw a deer and a hawk. This was running in the shoulders of a couple highways; light traffic, but mildly harrowing with semis barreling by. Did not get to wheezing like I remember when running in Omaha - perhaps that was part of the worry, also. Glad I completed this because it felt like a huge achievement to me. Wanted to run 6.7 mi in order to do the 10% gain rule, but this was close enough.
62 min / 6.4 mi = 9.7 min/mi

7-18-2009: maintenance run. Did not want this to be too long as to impede hiking the next day, but also wanted to get a short one in. Ended up working out perfectly.
38.1 min / 4.5 mi = 8.5 min/mi

7-21-2009: second long run. Wanted to beat the heat so got up at 5am and ran past the 91 FWY and back. Was planning on doing the river trail however it was too dark and sketchy so I stuck to streets until the way back when it was light enough. Heard a rooster crow, saw a horse sleeping on his side (on the ground) which was pretty funny. Not too funny: a drunk was feeding another horse some liquor! I told a ranch hand I saw soon after so hopefully he took care of it. I didn't want to get into a fight with some drunk - had running to do! I was happy with this run for sure.
68 min / 7.8 mi = 8.7 min/mi

Redondo 5K

“4th of July 5K Run/Walk and Kids’ Dash” (by Village Runner)
Sat, July 4, 2009 at 8AM
Redondo Beach, CA
Bib #: 606
Division: 25-29 Male
Age: 26
Chip Time: 22:42.2
Clock Time: 22:44.8
Overall: 243 out of 2239
Sex Place: 206th
Division Place: 18 out of 65 (16 divisions per sex = 32 total)
Pace: 7:19 min/mile