02.14.08

First posting

Posted in Uncategorized at 8:52 pm by kaminski64 · Digg! this story! Digg! this story.

Fascinating… we can post anything on line these days, eh?
My goal is not to be public with my running unless it provides me with the needed support and additional encouragement that I think I need. It’s been hard to motivate to run. Putting an event on the schedule helps a lot, but I might have set my current goal too high: Half marathon March 8. When I set this goal, I had about 12 weeks. I started in pretty good shape - I stay active and all and run on occasion - but I know I need to get my endurance and mileage up. There’s the current problem.

Now I’m down to 3 weeks. Last year I ran a Half, trained about 2/3’s - 3/4’s as much as I would have liked, but even then that meant I had run 8 to 9 miles with 6 weeks to go and built up to 10 before the race. Now… max distance has been about 5.5 miles.

But all is not lost. My intention with this race is #1 to keep me running/motivated and #2 as a training step for the next race that I’ve already signed up for April 6 (or so).

So now… help me get the mileage up!!

2 Comments

  1. Karl McCracken said,

    02.15.08 at 7:16 am

    OK, I’m game. What have you done today, and what do you have in the schedule for the next week, and the next 14 days after that? It sounds like you’ve got good intentions, and need to take concrete action to turn them into reality. So probably the best thing you can do is sit down with your diary, and plan the next three weeks in detail - six days’ running + one day rest per week, and a couple of extra days rest before your race. Check out the sweat356 1/2 marathon training plans for more detail on what you should be doing on each day.

    Oh, and one more thing - Good Luck!

  2. luluorange said,

    03.28.08 at 8:21 pm

    Find a route that interest you, extend the distance at the end, don’t stop where you normally would stop, keep going and explorer. See where that takes you, try to extend the distance a 1/2 mile pass your normal end point then turn back. You have just added a mile to your routine.

    You are running short on time a bit, so depends on your fitness, you shouldn’t add more than 10% of your mile per week. You might have to go over that to meet your goal before the race. I would just be very careful and pay attention to how you feel as you go.

    Good luck, get out there and run the best you can. We are routing for you!