Now that the training for the Half Marathon has come and gone it is time for me to refocus and head in a new direction. Only for the time being.
I know in my heart that I want to run hard half marathons and marathons, but the build ups are just killing me. I went into long island half marathon slightly over trained and with a bit of heaviness in the legs. I need to learn from this and twist a few things in my training before I get out there again.
In the short term I am going to work on my overall base. I am going to log miles with some long hard efforts twice a week. Get my body used to running long and hard. During this time I will jump into a few road races here and there, with nothing specific coming to mind at the moment. These will be to just test my overall fitness.
Since the half I have been doing a good job of letting my body recover. They say that when you race it takes the body the same number of days to recover for the miles you raced. Thirteen days is a long time, especially when you are itching to get back after it. I know I have to be patient because I have made the mistake before and I don't want to be a repeat offender.
The recovery has looked like this:
Week 1 - 5/3 - 5/9
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday - 25 minutes of easy jogging
Sunday - 6 miles running
Week 2 - 5/10 - 5/16
Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday - 40 minutes easy running
Tuesday - 8 miles running
and the rest of the week is yet to happen but the plan is Friday and Saturday 40 minutes running, then Sunday 10 miles.
I will check back with the audience(Is there even an audience for this blog?) as the weeks go by with updates in training and plans. Till the next time!
I know in my heart that I want to run hard half marathons and marathons, but the build ups are just killing me. I went into long island half marathon slightly over trained and with a bit of heaviness in the legs. I need to learn from this and twist a few things in my training before I get out there again.
In the short term I am going to work on my overall base. I am going to log miles with some long hard efforts twice a week. Get my body used to running long and hard. During this time I will jump into a few road races here and there, with nothing specific coming to mind at the moment. These will be to just test my overall fitness.
Since the half I have been doing a good job of letting my body recover. They say that when you race it takes the body the same number of days to recover for the miles you raced. Thirteen days is a long time, especially when you are itching to get back after it. I know I have to be patient because I have made the mistake before and I don't want to be a repeat offender.
The recovery has looked like this:
Week 1 - 5/3 - 5/9
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday - 25 minutes of easy jogging
Sunday - 6 miles running
Week 2 - 5/10 - 5/16
Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday - 40 minutes easy running
Tuesday - 8 miles running
and the rest of the week is yet to happen but the plan is Friday and Saturday 40 minutes running, then Sunday 10 miles.
I will check back with the audience(Is there even an audience for this blog?) as the weeks go by with updates in training and plans. Till the next time!
