Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Running Plan (11 weeks out!)

I've never been particularly good at organizing and following a set training plan, but as the marathon draws near I'm started to think that I should. As I mentioned in the previous post, I've been reading a book on marathon training which suggests the following training schedule for novice runners:

Week Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
1 rest 3 miles 3 miles 3 miles rest 6 miles cross
2 rest 3 miles 3 miles 3 miles rest 7 miles cross
3 rest 3 miles 4 miles 3 miles rest 5 miles cross
4 rest 3 miles 4 miles 3 miles rest 9 miles cross
5 rest 3 miles 5 miles 3 miles rest 10 miles cross
6 rest 3 miles 5 miles 3 miles rest 7 miles cross
7 rest 3 miles 6 miles 3 miles rest 12 miles cross
8 rest 3 miles 6 miles 3 miles rest 13 miles cross
9 rest 3 miles 7 miles 4 miles rest 10 miles cross
10 rest 3 miles 7 miles 4 miles rest 15 miles cross
11 rest 4 miles 8 miles 4 miles rest 16 miles cross
12 rest 4 miles 8 miles 5 miles rest 12 miles cross
13 rest 4 miles 9 miles 5 miles rest 18 miles cross
14 rest 5 miles 9 miles 5 miles rest 14 miles cross
15 rest 5 miles 10 miles 5 miles rest 20 miles cross
16 rest 5 miles 8 miles 4 miles rest 12 miles cross
17 rest 4 miles 6 miles 3 miles rest 8 miles cross
18 rest 3 miles 4 miles2 miles rest rest race

This week would correspond to week 8 on the schedule, which means I haven't done too bad. My actual schedule will be slightly different because I usually crossfit on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. My plan moving forward is to sacrifice crossit on Saturday for a long run and I'd like to try and do yoga on Sundays (offered at my gym). As I typed up this schedule I noticed that it contradicts the notion that one can train for a marathon without going much over 30 miles in a week. I guess there isn't much one can do when the long runs start to approach 20 miles. 

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