There are 41 days remaining between now and my fourth half marathon. Unlike the previous three where a whole year went by between races, this event is taking place a little over four months after my most recent. Fearing that I have not adequately prepared for this event up until now, I have decided to make a live-strong, dead-set, no excuses regimen to follow for the next five weeks. Although I have been running far more this fall/early winter than I have in the previous years, it has not been the kind of running I had set out to do. Gaps for vacations and illness have affected my stride; and not necessarily just in the technical sense. I have noticed that my good days are not when I predict them to be, and vice versa – which was always easy to do in the summers leading up to, at least, the most recent two half marathons.
My first thought was that I will stay at my current weekly mileage and just hope for a decent time and race-day stance. It’s worked before, right? But I think what is more important here is to realize that there will be other races, specifically, another half in the Northern California beach town of Santa Cruz
Equipped with new running gear thanks to my amazing fiancée and Sports Basement of Walnut Creek, I will be following the below, hopefully to a T, in hopes to look like something other than a sloth come Sunday, Superbowl Sunday, this February:
Week of 12/28 – 1/3
Monday: 4 mi AM, 3 mi PM
Tuesday: 5 mi AM, 6 mi PM
Wednesday: 3.8 mi AM, 8 mi PM
Thursday: 6 mi AM
Friday: 8 mi AM
Saturday: 6 mi AM
Sunday: 5 mi AM
*Weekly Total: 55.8
Week of 1/4 – 1/10
Monday: 7.6 mi AM, 3 mi PM
Tuesday: 5 mi AM, 6 mi PM
Wednesday: 3.8 mi AM, 8 mi PM
Thursday: 6 mi AM
Friday: 6 mi AM
Saturday: 8 mi AM
Sunday: 7.6 mi AM
*Weekly Total: 62
Week of 1/11 – 1/17
Monday: 7.6 mi AM, 3 mi PM
Tuesday: 5 mi AM, 6 mi PM
Wednesday: 3.8 mi AM, 8 mi PM
Thursday: 6 mi AM
Friday: 6 mi AM
Saturday: 8 mi AM
Sunday: 7.6 mi AM
*Weekly Total: 62
Week of 1/18 - 1/24
Monday: 8 mi AM, 3 mi PM
Tuesday: 6 mi AM, 4 mi PM
Wednesday: 3.8 mi AM, 8 mi PM
Thursday: 7 mi AM
Friday: 6 mi AM
Saturday: 10 mi AM
Sunday: 7.6 mi AM
*Weekly Total: 65.4
Week of 1/25 – 1/31
Monday: 6 mi AM, 3 mi PM
Tuesday: 6 mi AM, 4 mi PM
Wednesday: 3.8 mi AM, 8 mi PM
Thursday: 7 mi AM
Friday: 6 mi AM
Saturday: 10 mi AM
Sunday: 7.6 mi AM
*Weekly Total: 65.4
Week of 2/1 – 2/7
Monday: 4 mi AM, 3 mi PM
Tuesday: 4 mi AM, 3 mi PM
Wednesday: 3.8 mi AM, 4 mi PM
Thursday: 5 mi AM
Friday: 3.8 mi AM
Saturday: 3 mi AM
Sunday: RACE DAY!
*Weekly Total: 33.6 (minus 13.1 mile race)
