{"id":792,"date":"2009-05-13T19:47:21","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T19:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=792"},"modified":"2010-01-04T18:14:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T18:14:24","slug":"half-marathon-training-between-week-6-and-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/13\/half-marathon-training-between-week-6-and-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Half Marathon Training, Between Week 6 and 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019ve been following me here<\/a> this shouldn\u2019t be any surprise, but for the rest of you and for my posterity, here is how last week went.\u00a0 Since this is all P4DoV (pre-4 days of Vegas), I’m just going to list most of the workouts as complete, I don’t *really* remember what I was thinking and feeling last Monday.<\/p>\n

Monday: 4 mile run and weights at the gym<\/p>\n

Check and check.<\/p>\n

Tuesday: 40 minute tempo run and yoga<\/p>\n

Check and check.\u00a0 Though I fail miserably at running true tempos (all one pace), I did push myself pretty hard and clocked the tempo part around a 8:20 pace.\u00a0 I do remember not being into this run AT ALL until about 10 mins before cooldown though.\u00a0 Bad, bad.<\/p>\n

Wednesday: DDR and yoga<\/p>\n

Check and check.<\/p>\n

\"\"Thursday: 4 mile run and weights at home<\/p>\n

Half check and check.\u00a0 My body just needed sleep that morning so I slept instead of running (hence the “I slept in and blah blah” post last week).\u00a0 Then, I was going to make it up as a really really long warmup before my weights session, but I felt the tired coming on around the end of mile 2 and just stopped there.\u00a0 I didn’t want to really kill myself within about 14 hours of the long run.<\/p>\n

Friday: 8 mile run<\/p>\n

Check.\u00a0 I was actually about 3 mins late to work.\u00a0 Oops.\u00a0 Must get up earlier.\u00a0 Oddly enough – about mile 4 to 7 was totally rough, but I started getting my second wind around 7.\u00a0 I’m hoping this bodes well for the next one.<\/p>\n

Vacation: No running, lots of walking\/swimming<\/p>\n

Check.\u00a0 Walked at least 10 miles total, swam for about an hour, didn’t even bring the running shoes.\u00a0 I did enough activity that I still feel pretty sore though (however if I had to choose between standing for an hour and running for an hour – standing would make me more sore)!<\/p>\n

Total week 6 mileage (running):\u00a0 18.5 (plus a ton of walking)<\/p>\n

Week 7 – not a normal week, but a week it is.<\/p>\n

Wednesday: yoga and 50 mins of DDR<\/p>\n

Thursday: 4.5 mile run and weights at the gym<\/p>\n

Friday: 9 mile run<\/p>\n

Weekend: Rest and bike riding somewhere.\u00a0 Not going to try to make up all the missed training, but want to do *something*<\/p>\n

Things I learned last week:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 Vacations are never restful.\u00a0 On the mind, usually, yes.\u00a0 On the body – never.\u00a0 I don’t think I’ve ever come back from a vacation raring to go the next day.\u00a0 I don’t know why I thought this would be different, but I was hoping.\u00a0 I already knocked off one run I was going to do this weekend, and considering how I feel right now and how HARD it was for me to get outta bed this morning, I’m hoping I can make it through the 3 days I have planned.<\/p>\n

\"\"If I had my perfect world, I would NOT have scheduled a vacation in the 3 months while trying to train for a half.\u00a0 I need to get my head back into what I’m doing, and ignore the fact that I work out way more than normal people and that I shouldn’t feel entitled to slack because of it.\u00a0 I also have to remember that I *eat* more than a regular human female of my size who doesn’t train like I do, so if I lower the activity, I need to start watching myself instead of devouring 2 bowls of soup and a whole chicken and a half worth of breasts at the dinner show.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 8 miles is much different than 7, but I got through it.\u00a0 Hopefully, 9 miles will be just about like 8.\u00a0 If it’s much more difficult, I’m going to have a hard time upping my mileage like this every week.\u00a0 Until I have another longer-than-7 mile run under my belt, I can’t be sure if I just had a crappy run last week or pushing myself this far this fast is too much for me.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Just so everything in here isn’t all about me being tired and having rough runs – I’m starting to have a feeling that 150 lbs might be my happy weight for a while.\u00a0\u00a0 Planning on posting more about that later though.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 Once I’m done with this, I really need to work on tempo runs.\u00a0 Maybe start the week running the distance slow enough that I am FOR SURE going to be able to keep one pace and then keep upping it until it’s a challenge, but do-able.\u00a0 Running one pace and slow just BORES me though, especially on a treaddy.\u00a0 However, it seems like an important skill to have for a runner.\u00a0 Maybe?<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 Anyone start feeling intimidated by the sheer number of time you have to put in to log the miles you need to run\/increase in the last half of training the first time you did a half or a marathon?\u00a0 I’m just looking at the training schedule coming up and when I don’t see any days under 4.5 miles (and then none under 5 miles in 2 weeks)…oy.\u00a0 I’m thinking next week is when I’m going to have to make some modifications.\u00a0 First thing to go is one strength session a week – I’ll split a full body workout into 2 half body workouts so it goes from 45-60 minutes to 20-30 mins.\u00a0 Then, I’ll start counting any bike riding I do on the weekends against my Wednesday cross training day.\u00a0 Yoga will be non-negotiable.<\/p>\n

A little gloomy?\u00a0 Mebbe.\u00a0 I’m sure it will pass by the time I get a run or 2 under my belt this week.\u00a0 What’s going on out there in internet land?\u00a0 Any sunshine for me?<\/p>\n

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