Half marathon training – Week 2 – YOGAmazing
I do not have too many exciting things to say about this past week of training. Mostly I’m just proud that I got all my scheduled runs in. I’ve been working like a mad woman trying to get my dissertation written so the fact that I was able to drag myself out of bed and out on a run was a victory in itself. Of course, I know that running is the best thing I can do for myself in these stressful times but that’s hard to remember when the alarm goes off at 6am!
My legs felt really good last week and I credit it to the (almost) nightly yoga sessions I’ve been doing. I recently came across a yoga video podcast that I really works for me. It’s called YOGAmazing and is available for download on iTunes. The instructor is great and the workouts are each about 25 minutes long which seems to be about my yoga attention span. So far my favourites are “Yoga for Runners” and “Yoga for Sciatica.”
| 20/04 | - | Rest day |
| 21/04 | 5.0 mi | Easy run: avg 168 bpm, 10:52 min/mile |
| 22/04 | 5.0 mi | Speedwork: 2x1mi in 7:58/8:00 |
| 23/04 | 4.0 mi | Easy run: avg 165 bpm, 10:29 min/mile |
| 24/04 | - | Rest day |
| 25/04 | 9.0 mi | Long run: avg 166 bpm, 11:04 min/mile |
| 26/04 | 4.0 mi | Recovery run: avg 162 bpm, 10:38 min/mile |
| Total | 27.0 mi | YTD: 405.7 miles |
Keep at the 6am runs (although I’m only stuck with 7am runs). I am going to take a look at the YOGAmazing pdocasts, they look interesting.