Did 9 miles on this cool, crisp Texas morning!
It is amazing how some days the run is hard and other days the run is easy. Today was one of the easy days!
Getting ready to settle in for a marathon catch up of, "Californication" Season 3. I On-Demanded the first 8 episodes and can't wait to watch it. This show is hysterical.
Tomorrow morning is a 5 mile run.
Thanks for Reading,
Jeff
Showing posts with label Half Marathon Training Plan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Half Marathon Training Plan. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Half Marathon Training: 50 Minute Run
As I have mentioned a few times Annie and I will be doing the Austin Half Marathon in February. We have been using a training plan from Runner's World to prepare us for this race. (Click Here to see the plan).
We are currently in Week 5 of this plan and the run for today called for 50 minutes at an easy pace. We woke up at 5am again to get this run in and it ended up being just a great morning. The humidity was way down and we actually had a slight breeze. We both knocked it out rather easily and ended up doing 5.2 miles in the 50 minutes. About a 9:37 pace I believe. I am actually beginning to really enjoy running. At least I enjoy it when not on a treadmill.
Here is week 5 of the plan (this is a less intense/recovery week):
WEEK 5
MON: 40 min moderate
TUE: 30-40 min XT
WED: 50 min easy
THU: 30-40 min XT
FRI: Rest
SAT: 6 miles conversational
SUN: Rest
My plans for the next few months are to follow this plan until I am very comfortable running longer distances and have a solid running base. I have a sprint triathlon scheduled for October 18th but since it is a short race (300M Swim/10 Mi Bike/3 Mi Run) I do not feel the need to train race specific for it. So that being said, it will be half mary training with a swim and bike on the XT (cross train) days until the beginning of December.
Then in December I am going to begin a 20 Week 1/2 Ironman training program offered by BeginnerTriathlete.com (Click Here to view this plan). This will begin 20 weeks before the Olympic Level Race in April. I am choosing to do the 1/2 Ironman over the Olympic plan mainly because it is such a solid detailed plan and if I plan on doing this level anyways so I might as well get used to it.
So there is my plans for the next 1/2 year or so!
Tomorrow is a XT day and I plan on Swimming, probably 1500-2000 meters.
Thanks for Reading,
Jeff
***EDIT: Will be updating the Google calendar in the next couple of days.***
*****EDIT #2: Let me know what you think of the new layout *****
We are currently in Week 5 of this plan and the run for today called for 50 minutes at an easy pace. We woke up at 5am again to get this run in and it ended up being just a great morning. The humidity was way down and we actually had a slight breeze. We both knocked it out rather easily and ended up doing 5.2 miles in the 50 minutes. About a 9:37 pace I believe. I am actually beginning to really enjoy running. At least I enjoy it when not on a treadmill.
Here is week 5 of the plan (this is a less intense/recovery week):
WEEK 5
MON: 40 min moderate
TUE: 30-40 min XT
WED: 50 min easy
THU: 30-40 min XT
FRI: Rest
SAT: 6 miles conversational
SUN: Rest
My plans for the next few months are to follow this plan until I am very comfortable running longer distances and have a solid running base. I have a sprint triathlon scheduled for October 18th but since it is a short race (300M Swim/10 Mi Bike/3 Mi Run) I do not feel the need to train race specific for it. So that being said, it will be half mary training with a swim and bike on the XT (cross train) days until the beginning of December.
Then in December I am going to begin a 20 Week 1/2 Ironman training program offered by BeginnerTriathlete.com (Click Here to view this plan). This will begin 20 weeks before the Olympic Level Race in April. I am choosing to do the 1/2 Ironman over the Olympic plan mainly because it is such a solid detailed plan and if I plan on doing this level anyways so I might as well get used to it.
So there is my plans for the next 1/2 year or so!
Tomorrow is a XT day and I plan on Swimming, probably 1500-2000 meters.
Thanks for Reading,
Jeff
***EDIT: Will be updating the Google calendar in the next couple of days.***
*****EDIT #2: Let me know what you think of the new layout *****
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