Planning

I got excited today.  A friend posted something from Disney about next year's Princess Race Weekend.  I signed up for reminders and notifications to let me know when registration begins.  However, this got me thinking...I have never run in a race before.  Am I doing things right?  Am I training like I should?  Will I have the appropriate experience when the time comes?  So, this in mind, I started researching training programs.  I am not jumping into a half marathon training session unprepared.  I am starting as a beginner with a 5k training program.  I figure I can work up from there.
Now this brings me to the second half of my problem...experience.  I have never run in a race (unless you count track in high school and that was way too long ago to discuss).  I am currently working on researching local races that I can start with to work up to the Disney race.  I haven't found one yet that is far enough out for me to be prepared, but I will.  And I can't wait!!!