#tsfm2015

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people: *running*

me: *waiting for food trucks to open*

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Training Days

After doing some research online (this includes reading blogs, articles, personalizing a friend's training program and watching movies...Spirit of Marathon and Run for Your Life are great/inspiring!), I've come up with a training plan for the next 9 weeks. If there's anyone out there reading this and has some helpful tips, please share away!

1.       Sunday: Cross training (1x/week) - primarily cycling and yoga. I'll also try to find a pool where I can aqua jog. With cycling, I aim to strengthen my quads which (so I read) will be essential for those downhill runs in Frisco. Yoga is something that I do here and there so that'll be good for stretching and core strengthening.

2.       Monday: Progressing short-runs (1x/week) - I am starting with 6.2 miles (which I can run comfortably) and increasing this by 10% every week, peaking at 11.7 miles in 8 weeks.

3.       Tuesday: Running class (1x/week) - looking forward to class to correct all the bad habits I may have developed as a wanna-be runner.

4.       Wednesday: Strength training (1x/week) - still doing my research, will likely focus on lower body, hip strength.

5.       Thursday: Easy 4 miles with interval training (1x/week).

6.       Friday: Rest day, night to spend time at home :)

7.       Saturday: Slow long-runs (1x/week) - starting with 11 miles (my long run distance leading up to the BK Half), also increasing by 10% of distance every week, peaking at 21 miles. 21 miles sound stupid intimidating. Hell, anything above 12 sounds intimidating.  

Three running sessions/week on my own...sounds doable.

BUT I have to make sure I stick to this training plan.

It's always challenging when things come up last minute at work and my evening plans are derailed. Or, I wake up late (because I had to work late or couldn't resist Shonda Rhymes’ addicting shows), making it difficult to leave work early.

I tend to be a professional planner, but my uptake on things that I plan for myself/to better my life is not always consistent. I know this is all going to come down to discipline and proper execution so already, the mental test associated with running a marathon has started way before the actual race (that moment that everyone refers to as "hitting the (proverbial) wall" or BONKING when both your body and mind say "WTF! Noo!").  This marathon is definitely going to challenge my ability to execute my own plans. I gotta and better say - in Cookies' famous lines - "BYE FELICIA" to these bad habits and get going with the program!