Updated training plan. Please feel free to download a copy and customise for yourself! This is taken from Sam Murphy's 'Marathon from start to finish', which I linked to in an earlier post. She has 6 full programmes based on how much time you can realistically devote to training and how hard you think you can push yourself. I think this is 'Ideal World', easier. Stuff in green I am doing because I chose to. Stuff in red is the actual programme to complete training for the London Marathon next year, i.e. 'must do'.
Charting in Google docs is utter rubbish. Even when I did it properly, locally in Excel and uploaded, docs was unable to cope. So I'll be uploading charts as follows after each run.
Session by Session - showing time spent, distance covered and pace (mins per mile).
Charting in Google docs is utter rubbish. Even when I did it properly, locally in Excel and uploaded, docs was unable to cope. So I'll be uploading charts as follows after each run.
Session by Session - showing time spent, distance covered and pace (mins per mile).
Total Distance - I am intrigued to know how far I go in preparation for and on the big day, overall
Total Time - ditto how much of my life disappears while I'm doing it
Enough geekery. I did the same session today as last time, but over a different course. Although I always start outside my house and finish almost back here, meaning overall the elevation gain/loss is effectively 0, I seemed to spend more time running uphill this time. This appears to be reflected in the distance I covered and the average pace.
Two things I really hate when running - hills and headwinds. Both pretty much unavoidable when you live on the downs within spitting distance of the ocean. Hills really make my bosoms, which I'm depressed to have to admit to having these days, hurt. And headwinds are just unfair. I barely move at the best of times, but into a headwind you need stop-motion cameras and 3 days to see any progress at all. This also applies when I'm cycling. Given that after my next marathon I want to try a triathlon, this is not all that encouraging! I think it's the Hever Castle triathlon today and I really think I will be giving that a go next year.
Provided I can do another run tomorrow, I'm back on track for sticking to my plan! I wasn't actually planning on running today, I was supposed to be enjoying my 40th birthday present - a blast round a track in a Lamborghini Murcielago. But a case of identity theft saw the session rebooked for a different date, at a venue I have no hope of getting to, by someone apparently called Lee Colegate from Peterborough. Sorted out now, but very annoying and stressful and not really how I wanted to spend my day off yesterday. I booked this long weekend to really get the most out of the drive and have some proper fun and it's all gone wrong.
Hey ho, I can watch the Grand Prix instead and I still have Monday to waste in front of the Wii.
Two things I really hate when running - hills and headwinds. Both pretty much unavoidable when you live on the downs within spitting distance of the ocean. Hills really make my bosoms, which I'm depressed to have to admit to having these days, hurt. And headwinds are just unfair. I barely move at the best of times, but into a headwind you need stop-motion cameras and 3 days to see any progress at all. This also applies when I'm cycling. Given that after my next marathon I want to try a triathlon, this is not all that encouraging! I think it's the Hever Castle triathlon today and I really think I will be giving that a go next year.
Provided I can do another run tomorrow, I'm back on track for sticking to my plan! I wasn't actually planning on running today, I was supposed to be enjoying my 40th birthday present - a blast round a track in a Lamborghini Murcielago. But a case of identity theft saw the session rebooked for a different date, at a venue I have no hope of getting to, by someone apparently called Lee Colegate from Peterborough. Sorted out now, but very annoying and stressful and not really how I wanted to spend my day off yesterday. I booked this long weekend to really get the most out of the drive and have some proper fun and it's all gone wrong.
Hey ho, I can watch the Grand Prix instead and I still have Monday to waste in front of the Wii.
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