HM Training, Feb. 4-10

Jill · Feb 5, 2008

How are you all doing this week? Looks like Laura has her goal race coming up. When is it Laura? Congrats MrPH on your 10K last weekend and SLOjim on your 5k. 
VTLaura 
Goal Race: 2/08 - Hyannis HM 
Plan: Glover RunningForT3 
Goal Races: 3/2 - E Murray Todd HM 
5/4 - New Jersey HM 
6/1 - Black Bear - the biggest one in my life, coming at the end of my first half-ironman 
Plan: jebba 
Goal Races: 3/15 - Tom King Half Marathon 
4/26 - Country Music Half Marathon 
Plan: Litchfield Hills 
Goal Race: 4/6/08 - Danbury HM 
Plan: Daniels Runnin-from-the-Law 
Goal Race: 4/19/08 - Earth Day HM 
Plan: modified Daniels Jill 
Goal Race: 4/27/08 - Lehigh Valley HM 
Plan: modified Rick Morris plan sauconRunner 
Goal Race: 4/27/08 - Lehigh Valley HM 
Plan: RW plan MrPHinNJ 
Goal Race: 04/27/08 - Lehigh Valley HM 
Plan: Personal Plan ScratchType1 
Goal Race: 5/4/08 -Broad Street Run 
Plan: personal version of Daniels 
Dankinia 
Goal Race: 5/4/08 - Eugene HM 
Plan: personalized plan SLOjim 
Goal Races: 5/4 Avenue of the Giants (enjoy the race... run sub 2:00) 
9/13 Heartbreak Ridge at Camp Pendleton (lots of hills, run hard .... sub 2:00) 
10/12 Long Beach (run hard, even splits, 1:52) 
Plan: personal plan - base currently at 35-40mpw .. hold at 40mpw with speed work and short races. 
keriksen 
Goal Race: 5/27/08 - Madison HM 
Plan: Daniels tigger 
Goal Race: 6/22/08 - Vancouver HM 
Plan: Pfitzinger

Jill · Feb 5, 2008

My plan for this week calls for 30 mi, but I'm skipping my Tuesday tempo run because my legs feel really beat up and I want to give them another day to rest. Other than that I'm right on target. HM is 12 weeks away. 
M: Rest 
T: 4 Tempo 
W: 4 Easy 
TH: 6 Moderate 
F: XT 
S: 4 Easy 
S: 12 LR

MrPHinNJ · Feb 5, 2008

Congrats to Jill as well on her 10K over the weekend. Thanks for managing this thread by the way. 
I'm a little stiff from the 10K, but really it isn't too bad. I managed a 5.3 mile recovery run yesterday evening. Tuesday is usually an off day, but if it isn't raining when I get home I'll probably go out, since the chance of rain is greater tomorrow. 
Now that the 10K is behind me, I plan on spending the next few weeks adding mileage. That will get me over 40 mpw by early March. I'll then throw in some midweek tempo runs.

MrPHinNJ · Feb 5, 2008

Good idea. I read somewhere that you should allocate one day per race mile for recovery. Of course it's just a benchmark and some recover faster than others, but I don't think that a week of easy running after a 10K is unreasonable.

SLOjim · Feb 6, 2008

Jill......I think 10K races are great prep for HM, but you can go out and push too much and then have to modify your training plan. Always best to rest a little extra than trying to push it. 
My race turned out to be a bust......not much more than a tempo run.... it was raining, cold (for So Cal), and windy. Didn't do my 3 mile warm up as planned so I didn't push it as much as I wanted to. 
This week..... 
S- 5K 2 mile wu/cd 
M- rest 
T - 8.25 easy 
W - 8 progressive 
Th - rest 
F - 12 long 
S- 7 easy

Runnin-from-the-Law · Feb 6, 2008

My week is one of my high mileage weeks - 40 miles. 
M - cross/weights 
T - 6 miles at E + striders (ooops, forgot to do those striders today) 
W - 7 miles at E + striders + weights 
Th - off 
F - 1 mile @ E + 3x (10 minutes @ T w/2 minutes @ E between sets) + 1 mile @ E + weights 
S - 8 miles at E + striders 
Su - 12 miles at E

MrPHinNJ · Feb 6, 2008

Flood watch tomorrow, and it wasn't raining this evening, so I went out for 5.5 easy miles. Off until Thursday.

MrPHinNJ · Feb 8, 2008

A little over 7 miles this evening. Shooting for 35-36 this week.

MrPHinNJ · Feb 9, 2008

I hope I'm not the only one running this week. 5.2 easy this evening. Off until Sunday.

Runnin-from-the-Law · Feb 9, 2008

Hi MrPH - nope your not the only one. I've done 27 miles so far. Have 12 planned for tomorrow or Sunday, but dreading it because its gonna be sub-zero here (which I could handle, but the winds are supposed to be horrendous). So its gonna have to be on the TM, which will be boring!

SLOjim · Feb 9, 2008

I've been running, but doesn't look like I'm going to get my 40 in this week...... bailed out at 5 miles on a 12 mile long run this morning with a bad headache. Looks like this may be a step back week for me.

jebba · Feb 10, 2008

My planned 14 miler ended up being a 12 today. I don't know if you can hit the wall at only twelve miles, but I felt pretty close. I've been a little sleep deprived lately, so I wonder if I just ran out of steam. I started feeling a little nervous that my time goal for the half is too ambitious. <img alt="sad.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/sad.gif">

MrPHinNJ · Feb 10, 2008

13.5 this morning, giving me a little under 37 for the week.

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