If your back can get back to something like happiness, you're gonna be fine! The training programs I looked at had you doing like, one 8 or 10 miler a few weeks before the half, then everything else was smaller. If you can do 8 not on race day, you can do a half as soon as you're feeling a little better and have a few more runs back behind you. You can SO do this! *\o/*

I gotta get me a 5k. I'm definitely running a little faster for having been out just a few times in the last few weeks, and I want the personal training to be for Something. Luckily, there are still tons of those around :D.