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| Full Garmin History |
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| Trailing 12 month total mileage and month-over-month increase to trailing 12s |
So, as you can see from the future months in the graph, it's time to move towards another race.
This spring I'm targeting the Sugarloaf marathon in Maine, May 17th. More on that later.
For now though, the plan: I have one! Well, I kind of have one. A few weeks ago, by chance, I was introduced to a proper training coach, and I'm going with it! Honestly, I was feeling a bit overwhelmed by all the information I was collecting. I'm honestly looking forward to spending less time on the planning, and investing the energy into the actual training. I scrapped the day-by-day detail I had planned out. Well, sort of. I let him know that I had two B races already targeted: the Phoenix Half and the Eastern States 20 miler, and I also felt like the total 16 week mileage range I had developed (800-865) was the right trajectory for me at this stage, one full year into continuous training. I also felt as though the weekly ramp-up/down weeks was well researched, so, I sent just the weekly miles totals over to the coach, and after some small tweaks in response, we were off and running.
The way it works now (or through two weeks anyway) is that on Sunday afternoon, I get an email like the following, this week's (week 16) schedule:
Mon: easy recovery 4-5 @ 8:00-8:15 pace
Tue: maybe some shoveling, throw in a little core work if you have the time and energy.
Wed: track - 2 miles w/u, drills and strides, 6x1200 in 4:45 with 2 laps jog recovery, 2 miles jog cooldown (about 10 total)
Thursday: 5 miles recovery at 8:00 pace average, no slower!
Friday: 4-5 miles easy at 7:50-8:10 pace plus 5x15 second accelerations at some point in the last mile.
Saturday: long run: 14 miles with 6x2:00 at 7:00 pace with 2:00 at 8:00 pace recovery, starting at mile 10
Sunday: easy 5 at 8:00 pace
And then, I run.
My challenge through the first two weeks of the coaching has been maintaining a sub-8 pace in easy runs, and also last week's long run was kind of a mess, failing to hit low-ish 7 paces in the final 4-5 miles of the long run.
BUT, this week (above) is going somewhat better with just my long run left to do tomorrow. (We had a massive blizzard on Tuesday that kept the track closed on Wednesday, so that pushed everything a day.
ANYWAY, now I think I'll start posting weekly a) the upcoming week's schedule, with my thoughts and comments, and then a recap of the prior week's results.
And, we're off, here's the plan (target, stretch, and the comparison vs Philly 2014 training)
