Today is officially the start of my marathon training program. It's an advanced program that I got from active.com. It consists of moderately high mileage with 1-2 speed sessions per week after the first month or so, lots of running at marathon race pace, two 20-milers, and one 22-miler. I've done two 20-milers in training before, but never more, and never anything over 20 miles, so that will be interesting! Luckily, it starts easily, with only 8 easy miles this weekend.
Another interesting feature of this program is that most of the weekday runs are laid out by minutes running, rather than miles.
My husband and I did just under 5 miles this morning (45 minutes). We got up at 5:45, a little later, because my schedule allowed it today. It is SO HARD to get up-have I said that?! My husband leaves today for most of the week on business, so I knew our run would be the last time we would spend together for most of the week. That helped me get out the door! Anyway, I felt like I slowed WAY down in the second half of the run, but I finished in 45:51. My slowdown of almost a minute was significant, but not as bad as I thought. Now that I am officially in training, there are NO more excuses to skip runs, not even a crazy work week! |