Half marathon training – Week 10 – Graph and Goals
Another training cycle, another pretty graph. I’m really happy with my training for the half marathon. This wasn’t an easy training program. The mileage was totally reasonable for me but having both a speedwork session and a tempo session each week was tough. My hamstrings seemed to take the brunt of it. I’m quite pleased to have survived the 10 weeks of training mostly in tact. I’ve been very diligent this week in taking care of my hamstrings (stretching, ice and vitamin I) and getting those few last runs in.
| 16/03 | - | Rest day |
| 17/03 | 5.0 mi | Tempo run (hard): 2.5mi @ 8:33/8:29/8:xx |
| 18/03 | XT | 60 min on elliptical plus weights |
| 19/03 | 4.0 mi | Speedwork: 6x400m in 1:49/1:55/1:44/1:49/1:46/1:48 (1:55) |
| 20/03 | 3.0 mi | Easy run: avg 162 bpm, 10:19 min/mile |
| 21/03 | - | Rest day |
| 22/03 | 13.1 mi | HALF MARATHON RACE DAY! |
| Total | 25.1 mi | YTD: 311.7 miles |
So moving on to tomorrow’s race, here are my goals:
- Goal #1: The dream goal – <1:50:00
- Goal #2: Set a new PB – <1:51:59
- Goal #3: Beat 2 hours – <2:00:00
I probably should have some kind of a plan heading into the race. I’m not going to wear a pace band but I know the paces associated with each of the above goals so I’ll just monitor that. I would like to try and not go out too hard like I did in the Seattle Marathon. That means I don’t want to do any of miles 1-5 any faster than 8:23 min/mile. A non finish time related goal would be to negative split the race. I know there are some big hills but I’m just going to stay positive and deal with them as they come.