Tomorrow starts my official training for my first ever half marathon which is on Sunday, July 17. (I start out with a rest day, awesome!) I looked at several training plans online and adapted a couple of them into my own plan to work with my schedule. This training schedule is 10 weeks long, and I will run on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. I will complete a yoga workout on Tuesdays and Fridays (or possibly some other DVD workout). I will have one rest day per week.
During my regular runs I run for distance, but during my training run I will run for time. This makes me a little nervous, but I think I can adapt. I'm both nervous and excited to start my training.
Feel free to view my training schedule here. You'll notice I don't have any set speed workouts on the schedule, but I do plan to add in tempo runs and interval workouts a bit. I just don't know when. I do have a time goal for this 1/2 marathon (2.5 hours), but mainly I just want to finish strong. I want to feel great during my training, great during the race, AND great during the days that follow the race. Right now, I don't feel a huge need for speed. 11 minute miles for 13.1 miles will be fine. Just fine.
Here we go!
The schedule looks great!
ReplyDeleteThat's my goal for tonight...the house is clean, the laundry is mostly done....so tonight is training plan night. :-)