Half-marathon training – What actually happened

Here it is, 9+1 weeks of training summarized in metric and imperial friendly bar graph form. I take a lot of delight in graphing my training mileage. It’s an intersection between my running life and statistical life. I originally made the above graph without differentiating between the different types of running. I found that graph to be bland (below left) especially when compared to the graph of my training for the Vancouver half-marathon last May (below right). By comparing the graphs it’s clear to see that I (1) did a lot less cross-training this time around; (2) trained for only half as many weeks and (3) maintained a higher average and maximum training load. Interesting.