Assessment 2nd 10 Day Cycle, International Marathon in 120 Days
These 10 day cycles are not working for me. I need to return to week cycles. I have 17 weeks until the international marathon. My normal summer week should look as follows:
Monday/Wednesday/Friday/Sunday Basketball
Tuesday- Hill Repeats
Thursday- 7.5 Mile tempo Run. 1 mile warm-up and col down. 5.5 mile 8:27 or faster
Saturday- Long Run, This week 10 miles at base pace
Monday/Wednesday/Saturday Nights- Bosu Ball
Tuesday/Thursday Afternoons Pliometric workouts.
June 29, 2008 at 3:43 pm
At least you spotted that the method wasn’t compatible, and you’re able to troubleshoot right away! Sounds like a great plan ahead, definitely fill this chick in on the plyo workouts!! :) You’re awesome, my friend!!
June 30, 2008 at 8:56 am
You may want to give yourself a bit of a mental breather. The marathon was only about a month away, and the experts I read say it takes about a month to get back on track with training after a marathon. Have fun and focus on the 5K, a more manageable race than a 10 miler after a marathon. Use that as your benchmark and go from there. Your training must be reaping big fitness benefits, race times aside. Enjoy your summer.
June 30, 2008 at 9:23 am
I’m curious how you determine your training paces — are they based on performance in a particular race? If your 5k pace is about 8 m/m then it looks like your tempo pace of 8:27 m/m is about right, but 5.5 miles is a long run at that pace. Tempo runs are usually 20-30 minutes I think. Your July 5K should be a good gauge for adjusting training times.
July 1, 2008 at 11:27 am
Wow! That is a killer training schedule! And which marathon are you doing? Sounds like it should be a really good time, being an international one.