Objective: easy Weather: 32F, snowing lightly. Windy in open spaces (gust to 17 mph). Thin layer of snow over mostly bare pavement w/ icy spots. 15 min core & weights I never thought 32F would feel so pleasant. If we had a spike to the 50s (as sometimes happens in winter around here), I might just get heat stroke. Now that I have settled on Eugene for my spring marathon, I started the happy task of working out my training schedule, to begin around the first of the year. Although I did plan to include his workouts, I was not going to use Brad Hudson's Run Faster schedules because they were not quite right for me. The Marathon 2 schedule was a bit too light and the Marathon 3 schedule too heavy. But buried there in the chapter on how to put together your own schedule was another sample schedule, and it was (ala Goldilocks) just right. I still wanted to adjust the printed schedule for my own little preferences and needs but it is looking very good to me. I substituted some of the workouts for ones I want to include, reduced the number of "recovery weeks," eliminated the Saturday runs in favor of resting, and cranked up all of the long runs to the distance I like to cover. It took me about 90 minutes to get it all polished and copied into my planner (in the tiniest possible print, and in pencil of course). It's like a little work of art to me. :)
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