Jesse: Training for Chicago Marathon, week after mine. He just ran 16 miles on Saturday. He's way faster than me.
Jen: Training for Chicago Marathon, week after mine. She ran 14 miles today. Using Hal's Intermediate Training plan. She's way faster than me.
Kim: Training for Kansas City Marathon. Using Hal's Intermediate Training plan. She ran 12 miles last Sun July 19. She's way faster than me.
Dana: Training for Milwaukee Lakefront Marathon. Using Ran 16 miles Sat, July 18. She's way faster than me.
Those are all the blog folks I know that are training for a marathon this fall. Most of them are ahead of me in mileage. I am following a Runner's World training plan because Hal didn't do it for me in my first marathon. I think I ran too much. Four days a week is too much. Anyway, so my plan has me doing this:
June 28 - Plan: 9 miles | Actual: 8.7 miles
July 5 - Plan: 10 miles | Actual: None
July 11 - Plan: 5 miles | Actual: 10 miles
July 18 - Plan: 12 miles | Actual: 6 miles
July 25 - Plan: 14 miles | Actual: (July 26) 12 miles
Aug 1 - Plan: 16 miles
Aug 8 - Plan: 5 miles
Aug 15 - Plan: 18 miles
Aug 22 - Plan: 20 miles
Aug 29 - Plan: 16 miles
Sept 5 - Plan: 6 miles
Sept 12 - Plan: 20 miles
Sept 19 - Plan: 12 miles (TAPER)
Sept 26 - Plan: 8 miles
Oct 4 - Race 26.2
Those plans were thrown out the window when I didn't run at all on July 5 and then became sick for a few days and I couldn't get in my long run on July 18 and only did 6 miles. I can't jump from 12 to 16 next week. There's no way possible to do that; both physically and mentally.
What am I to do? Luckily, this training plan has me running 20 miles twice, so I could always cut that down and just do one which worked out for me earlier this year.
So looks like new plan will be still to follow the progressiveness of it but just push the weeks back.
July 26 - 12 miles
Aug 1 - 14 miles
Aug 8 - Will be in Madison. No run, a ride instead of 50 miles (if no ride than I will run 16 miles somehow)
Aug 15 - 6 miles -- need a rest after 3 weeks of buildup weeks
Aug 22 - Corn Fest 10k Race. Need to get in 18 miles here all before working Corn Fest (I'm officially crazy)
Aug 29 - Will run on Sun Aug 30 cause of plans on that Friday night. 20 miles
Sept 5 - Be in Madison again. 16 miles.
Sept 12 - 6 miles
Sept 19 - 12 miles (TAPER begins)
Sept 26 - 8 miles
Oct 4 - Race 26.2
I'm kinda worried about having a 6 mile the week before my real taper begins. It should be another 20 miles but I don't want to do a 20-16-20! That would be tough! Maybe a 20-16-14? But then on Marathon Day it would be 5 weeks since I did any mileage of significance. That would be like a major taper.
Even with these changes, I'm still having some issues with getting in all the mileage I need. Plans & life is getting in the way. Just hope no more sickness comes up. That would really throw a wrench in my plans.
So, got any suggestions to help me with my dilemma?
**EDIT**
Forgot to mention anything about my 12 mile run today. I wore my compression shorts and HOW DID I RUN WITHOUT THESE??? They are fantastic!! Like a second skin and didn't ride up and I didn't have any body image issues wearing them! I had about 4 Shot Bloks and nearly all of the water in my bottle. I actually started earlier than I thought I could; 6:45am so that was awesome even though I went to sleep around 1am and woke at 6am. Came across some runners and 1 really friendly biker, which is totally unusual! I used my iPod which is good since running on the Great Western Trail is incredibly boring, flat, straight and blah. I came in faster than I had anticipated; about 3 minutes which worked out to be 15 seconds per mile.
Jen: Training for Chicago Marathon, week after mine. She ran 14 miles today. Using Hal's Intermediate Training plan. She's way faster than me.
Kim: Training for Kansas City Marathon. Using Hal's Intermediate Training plan. She ran 12 miles last Sun July 19. She's way faster than me.
Dana: Training for Milwaukee Lakefront Marathon. Using Ran 16 miles Sat, July 18. She's way faster than me.
Those are all the blog folks I know that are training for a marathon this fall. Most of them are ahead of me in mileage. I am following a Runner's World training plan because Hal didn't do it for me in my first marathon. I think I ran too much. Four days a week is too much. Anyway, so my plan has me doing this:
June 28 - Plan: 9 miles | Actual: 8.7 miles
July 5 - Plan: 10 miles | Actual: None
July 11 - Plan: 5 miles | Actual: 10 miles
July 18 - Plan: 12 miles | Actual: 6 miles
July 25 - Plan: 14 miles | Actual: (July 26) 12 miles
Aug 1 - Plan: 16 miles
Aug 8 - Plan: 5 miles
Aug 15 - Plan: 18 miles
Aug 22 - Plan: 20 miles
Aug 29 - Plan: 16 miles
Sept 5 - Plan: 6 miles
Sept 12 - Plan: 20 miles
Sept 19 - Plan: 12 miles (TAPER)
Sept 26 - Plan: 8 miles
Oct 4 - Race 26.2
Those plans were thrown out the window when I didn't run at all on July 5 and then became sick for a few days and I couldn't get in my long run on July 18 and only did 6 miles. I can't jump from 12 to 16 next week. There's no way possible to do that; both physically and mentally.
What am I to do? Luckily, this training plan has me running 20 miles twice, so I could always cut that down and just do one which worked out for me earlier this year.
So looks like new plan will be still to follow the progressiveness of it but just push the weeks back.
July 26 - 12 miles
Aug 1 - 14 miles
Aug 8 - Will be in Madison. No run, a ride instead of 50 miles (if no ride than I will run 16 miles somehow)
Aug 15 - 6 miles -- need a rest after 3 weeks of buildup weeks
Aug 22 - Corn Fest 10k Race. Need to get in 18 miles here all before working Corn Fest (I'm officially crazy)
Aug 29 - Will run on Sun Aug 30 cause of plans on that Friday night. 20 miles
Sept 5 - Be in Madison again. 16 miles.
Sept 12 - 6 miles
Sept 19 - 12 miles (TAPER begins)
Sept 26 - 8 miles
Oct 4 - Race 26.2
I'm kinda worried about having a 6 mile the week before my real taper begins. It should be another 20 miles but I don't want to do a 20-16-20! That would be tough! Maybe a 20-16-14? But then on Marathon Day it would be 5 weeks since I did any mileage of significance. That would be like a major taper.
Even with these changes, I'm still having some issues with getting in all the mileage I need. Plans & life is getting in the way. Just hope no more sickness comes up. That would really throw a wrench in my plans.
So, got any suggestions to help me with my dilemma?
**EDIT**
Forgot to mention anything about my 12 mile run today. I wore my compression shorts and HOW DID I RUN WITHOUT THESE??? They are fantastic!! Like a second skin and didn't ride up and I didn't have any body image issues wearing them! I had about 4 Shot Bloks and nearly all of the water in my bottle. I actually started earlier than I thought I could; 6:45am so that was awesome even though I went to sleep around 1am and woke at 6am. Came across some runners and 1 really friendly biker, which is totally unusual! I used my iPod which is good since running on the Great Western Trail is incredibly boring, flat, straight and blah. I came in faster than I had anticipated; about 3 minutes which worked out to be 15 seconds per mile.
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3 comments:
You're so cute :)
My schedule was so hectic this week that I had to skip a long run, and I am just telling myself to forget about it. We can only get in what we can get in! We have to do our best to build the mileage, but if we don't, our game plan will just have to change a bit. There's nothing wrong with that. I am someone who LOVES to stick to a plan, but I am trying to learn that I don't always have to. Good luck! :)
I have to try some compression shorts - those sound awesome!
20-16-20 would be a lot in a row, but I think the 6 is very little to run right before the taper starts. That means on marathon day, it will have been almost a month since you ran 20 miles.
I would switch the 6 and 16, so you have 20-6-16-taper-taper-marathon.
Or if you could handle it, maybe make it 20-10-16 or something like that, to get a little more mileage in.
Of course, we can speculate a lot, but it all depends on how you feel when you get there! We just end up playing it by ear anyway, don't we? Good luck :)
I'm totally digging the 20-6-16 idea!!! I could do that and then I'd feel better about it too! Sweet, thanks for the idea!
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