Sandra's Post Half Marathon Plans

Okay, here's what I plan on doing until our next big adventure. This is by no means a set schedule that you have to follow. I thought maybe it'd be helpful for your own exercise schedules if you knew what I was doing:


Monday: Easy run (3-4 miles) and weight training
Tuesday: (lite) swimming and Spinning (I have a pass to the magna rec center so I can hit it on the way home from my mom's while Wade's in school)
Wednesday: Tempo Run (4-5 miles)
Thursday: Swimming and weight training, or rest day. Depending on how I feel.
Friday: Long Run (alternate between 6, 7, 8, 6 miles)
Saturday: Long bike ride or races or Stansbury Days bike/run course.


Once a month I would like to do the Stansbury Days bike and run course on a Saturday and time myself. Unless it's snowing of course. Then I'll just have to settle for biking indoors. My biggest problem in the tri was the transition from biking 12 miles to running a 5k, so I definitely need to work on that.


I really liked having a pace to try to keep instead of running and then calculating the pace afterwards, so after the half, I'm going to adjust my pace, depending on my finishing time. I'm suspecting it will be (a little) faster than what I've been running this summer.


Once we settle on our next half marathon and start training for it, which will probably be the Painter's Half in January, I'm going to drop one biking and one swimming session and add in another rest day. Probably Thursdays. I'm also going to cut out the weight training during active training periods.


Hillary and I (and I hope Christina) are set to do the Turkey Tri. Since I'm not in any position to win the thing, I'm just going to use the "maintenance" program as my training. I think I'll do well, especially if I keep biking and swimming. Basically, I'm doing it to get more triathlons under my belt. And for the challenge. And to be with friends. but I think my "premier" event in the triathlon arena will be the Stansbury Days. I would really like to medal in my age group next year and to do so, I'm going to have to pick up my pace. Which means I'm going to have to do more than one triathlon a year.


If we do the marathon, I'm going to adopt a similar training plan to this summer's, but with one more rest day incorporated. I would also like to incorporate specific workouts to do in the pool and on the bike instead of just "doing the exercise" so we can say we did it. Intervals and hills and what not. The goal is to get better, right?

In September, we're going to have a "team" meeting and decide if we're doing a marathon for sure next year. Then we can go from there. I'll have some sample training plans ready to review.

Other things I'm going to work on during the "off" season: getting 8 hours of sleep a night, drinking more water, eating nutritional meals, and not losing my patience with the kids.

If at any time you want to change your hobby to needlepoint or crochet, let me know. I'm all game. :)

Kidding.

Let me know so I can talk you out of it.

Do you like how I've totally taken over your training lives and dictate what to do and when? If you EVER have a suggestion, please let me know. I'm just making this stuff (mostly) up as I go. And, if you don't ever want to train with me because I'm crazy, let me know so I can feel bad and get over it (or change to be less crazy) instead of wondering if you're making up excuses as to why you can't go out with me. :)

But I think we did really good this summer, except for those couple of weeks where we were all in burn out mode. Most everyone I've talked to that runs these longer races say that's common. I remember being in burn out mode for the marathon training, but I was doing a training program that had us running 5 days a week--PLUS training for a triathlon. I really can't say enough about the 3 day a week training program. And the fact that I'm doing it with FRIENDS, and not basically alone (though Kandiss did the marathon with me, I was trying for a much faster time than her and so we basically trained by ourselves.)

I'd like to do another triathlon or two sometime next Spring before training for the marathon begins. And of course, the monthly 5ks. With soccer season, it's hard to get out to the organized ones on Saturday mornings. So maybe we could set some up around here and invite some of the neighborhood out to them. I really want to hit 25 minutes by next year. Hopefully, BEFORE the Tooele 4th of July 5k, so I can get a pretty ribbon for my age group too.