I am excited to be training for the ZOOMA Half Marathon on September 15. I am also excited to share that I will train using the Hansons Half Marathon Method. In a nutshell, this training is based on the concept of cumulative fatigue. You train your body to run often so that you are frequently running on tired legs. The idea is to run this way so that during the last miles of a race you are prepared to push through the final miles.
Week #4, June 18-24
M Ran 4.00 miles
T OFF
W OFF
TH Ran 7.10 miles
F Ran 4.00 miles
S Ran 4.00 miles
S Ran 3.50 miles
Monday was hot and icky! 4 miles to start off the week. There is a new restaurant that opened up by the house that serves tamales. I am a big fan of them and am excited to check it out.
I did Wednesday’s run (5×1000 with 400m recovery and 1.5 miles warmup and cooldown) on Thursday (again). And I almost skipped it on Thursday too. Luckily it was nice and cool but still humid. Each interval was supposed to be done between 9:27 and 9:51. I do need to do a better job of pacing myself.
Friday and Saturday were also easy runs, 4 miles each day. Saturday was 10 miles and I woke up at 4:30 to get an early start. I made it to the lakefront and around mile 2 was very tired. I stopped a few times but knew it wasn’t my day. I managed to run 3.5 miles and then walked to my car. I was a bit disappointed because I was running the pace I was supposed to (11:14-12:44) but just felt very tired. Oh well. Not every run will be a great run.
Total mileage for the week: 22.61 miles
Total mileage for this training cycle: 89.92 miles
Total mileage for the year: 541.31 miles
Here’s how training has gone so far:
Week 1 and 2
Week 3