I debated for awhile how I wanted to go about training for a marathon. My original plan was to follow Hal Higdon's Novice supreme which has put a 12 week program ending with a 6 mile long run at the front of his 18 week novice training program. The main reason I had chosen this plan was to give myself a longer amount of time before mileage above 6ish miles per run started. I had switched to a lower carb diet but was planning to incorporate more carbs into my diet closer to long runs. Well, I ended up having some issues with the lower carbs so I decided to begin reintroducing some carbs into my diet. Following that, my runs started getting stronger, and my mind began to change.
I decided that I had to have some sort of schedule or something to work toward. I have said it before on here but I have a TERRIBLE time sticking with regular runs when I don't have something to follow. After speaking with The Husband and we decided to follow a 12 week half program (the same one I followed when training) and I will transition from that over into the marathon program. I just need to decide if I am going to skip that last week that the program calls to run the half so that I am not too sore to start the first week of the marathon program.
I just finished week 2 of the half marathon program today. I am going to go ahead and do recaps again like I did last time to keep myself accountable to you all as well.
Week
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Mon
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Tues
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Weds
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Thurs
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Fri
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Sat
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Sun
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2
10-14 to 10-20
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Stretch & Strengthen
Circuit training (planks, burpees,
push ups, etc)
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3 mile run
3.2 miles
30:47
9:38/mi
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2 mile run or Cross
2.01 mi
18:11
9:04/mi
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3 mile run
Rest
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Rest
3.01 mi
26:27
8:48/mi
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4 mile run
Rest
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30 min cross
3 mi walk
48:55
16:30/mi
4 mi run
35:20
8:49/mi
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Monday: I did a circuit that I made up for this evening. 50 jumping jacks then 3 rounds each of 10 pushups, situps, burpees, tricep dips, oblique twists, and 20 second planks.
Tuesday: I ran with a girl I met at a local 5k a few weeks ago. It was the first time she had run in awhile and she did awesome! It was a lot of fun but talking for the entire run will take it out of you for sure!
Wednesday: I decided to get out before The Husband had to leave for work and get 2 miles in. I was so glad that I did! It was a nice start to the day.
Thursday: Took a rest day because Rex had a soccer game that threw our plans off.
Friday: Did Thursday's 3 miles down in my little town and was CRAZY surprised when I held sub 9 minute miles without even realizing it. I have never managed that for multiple miles and normally it's the first mile and I started too fast causing me to peter out by mile 3. I see signs of getting stronger!
Saturday: It poured a cold rain all day and I just could not bring myself to go out in it or get on the treadmill so I decided to double up on Sunday.
Sunday: For the last few weeks I have been meeting with my weight loss buddy on Sunday mornings to power walk. It is a nice time to get out and chat sans kids (she is also my homeschool buddy). We normally do 5 miles but we both had plans today so we only did 3. I knew this ahead of time so I took my running gear with me with intentions of heading straight back out. When we got back to our cars, I stripped down a layer and took off again and had another awesome sub 9 average run!! I don't know where this is coming from but I LOVE it!
Time to start week 3. The mileage bumps up a tad this week, but not much. I have a couple race recaps to add later this week as well as a couple possible giveaways to do. I'm going to leave you with my most recent progress pic. This is the first one where I can actually see some progress =)
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| Left: My first 5k March 23, 2013 Right:10k Sept 21, 2013 |
