The daily view is great for making me actually commit and do it, but I am left wondering what structures people are using in the schedule and at what stages they are at.
This is probably because I am only in a build basic endurance and strength stage which can be very boring when reported on a daily basis.
I thought perhaps a monthly - where we are, where we want to be by month end either as a thread on its own or in the daily report on the first or last day of the month.
So for me
current position - built weekly milage to 15 and 4 runs per week.
Target for August - 4 solid weeks at 15 miles as a base on which to build a race program on.
Just a thought.
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Soo. I have just signed up for a half on 20 Oct. And I want to do a tri (400m,20K,5K) on 22 Sept.
I'm somewhat stumped for training schedules (I progress too slowly for anything but get you round, and that starts too far back, and again makes too fast progress.) However, I am trying to sneak up on longer distances (>6m) and I am trying to vary my pace a bit. The idea is to try for 4-5 sessions a week, 3 of them my 3m route, on which I try to play games with pace, one 6m run/walk, and or a longer run/walk. A faster pace would be useful in the tri (definitely not in the half) and the experience "running" more than 2hours and not being dead at the end of it will be useful in the half.
I'd love it if anybody had even advice, or suggestions on how to draft a schedule.
Of course, fate has a nasty habit of sticking in its oar, usually to set progress back by at least a fortnight.
I would find it bitterly discouraging at the moment to set any targets for improvement. I spend too much time off even now entertaining the lurgy. Better for now simply to do what I can when I can.
I am reasonably confident that if I don't try for time in the tri, I will finish it happily, and if I walk lots early on, the half will not be an unpleasant experience, even at my present level.
Happy "running" Marj
Example: say i want to do a 10k race in Mid-October. I find a 10k programme for my level (say beginner) Print it off. See how many weeks it is and how that compares to how many weeks i have to the planned race. Most race schedules are about 8-10 weeks. So i stretch the schedule by adding in an easy week say every third or fourth week. I adjust the weeks mileage either up or down, depending on how i'm progressing. If i feel i'm doing really well by the easy week, then the week after, i stick in an extra few miles/minutes of speedwork and see how that does. If i'm not doing so well, after the easy week, i'll drop a speed session and just make it a steady session.
Hope this makes sense.
Happy running,
I shall clearly have to sit down with a pencil and paper some time. I fear it's going to have to be a three step process. One, figure out what the ideas are behind the printed programme. Two adjust same for my rate of progress, with built in "spare" weeks for disasters. Three, reinterpret into actually training plans.
Should be fun to plan though. Heaven knows I haven't made a plan that fate or lurgy hasn't scuppered in a very long time.
Better than just flopping about.
Thanks, marj
Where I am now: Drifting and trying to find my way. Doing 12.5 minute miles at a walk-run pace which is more walk than run. Doing weights two or three times a week. Cross-training a bit. Five kilos over my best-achieved running weight.
What I've achieved in July: Started training again and got up to about 25 miles a week. Definitely improved my cardiovascular endurance. Avoided injury. Lost two inches off my waist and chest and put them on my thighs and calves.
Where I want to be at the end of August: Ready for my first post-FLM race (five miles). Able to do hilly 5K circuit without walking and ideally in under 35 minutes. A kilogram lighter and with a lower percentage body fat (must measure it). Looking at a schedule that will let me do the GNR no slower than my younger, fitter sister. Resisting the temptation to increase my mileage much above its current level.
Now I shall print this out and stick it on the wall of the shower. Must get Kevin the Teenager to do one too, since she's just told me that she doesn't want to be a kiddy hanger-on at a fancy gym, she wants to join Birchfield Harriers and learn to run. Might be the impetus I need to join them myself.
Cheers, V-rap.