It's 6 weeks until race day, I will typically doing the same runs that I did for my North London Half training, with a couple of changes I'll explain below.
How many runs per week?
First things first, I'm going back to 4 runs a week. 3 runs a week was fine.. but I found that I was sometimes making an excuse not to run on some days and some weeks I only ended up running twice! So I figured, if I up my run days back to 4, I will at least run 3... there's some logic in there somewhere?! ;)
What runs will I do as part of training?
I'll be doing a Long Run, Tempo, Interval and/or hill run and another run of my choice during the week. Run days will be Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Sundays is always a long run -though, these days aren't set in stone as I plan on travelling into town with Phillip on a Sat/Sun for hill training and will have to see how that works with doing Long Runs. I may have to shuffle things about.
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| This hill is meaner than it looks, the photo doesn't do it justice and it's the only hill around! |
Cross Training? Rest Days?
I typically take 1 full rest day.. or at least active rest(a walk or yoga/stretching). I will swim at least once a week, but looking at upping that back to two days a week(Friday, possibly?). I will also be starting up kettle bell workouts and home workouts again, which I'm sure will be SO much fun( DOMS!) after a bit of a break! Aiming for KB/home workouts in between my run days. I did actually enjoy doing kettle bell workouts before I went on holiday, so I'm looking forward to getting back into it.
My main aim is to try and not skip interval runs and actually try and boost my pace a bit. My pace has come right down recently and I don't like it too much! I'd like to be back under 10 min/mi if possible, or at least close to! I obviously know it wont happen overnight, but I'm hoping to make at least a bit of difference come race day.
and obviously, ideally I'd totally like to beat my PB at Run Hackney. If I put in the training, it's totally doable this time, but it means sticking to my training, which I know has sucked recently. Will I manage to stick to it this time? We shall see!
As of Monday, keep an eye out for new Training Diary posts and see what runs I have done and what I have on the schedule :)
Question: Are you training for any races? What runs do you always have as part of your training?
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