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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Half Marathon Training - Week 3

Finishing week 3 of half marathon training seems surreal to me - the fact that we are this far into the program already is both exciting and still a little scary.  I definitely felt good about my training this week because I had really good runs and strength training sessions.  I was a little sore last week after doing all that but it's the "hurts so good" kind of pain!

My training schedule called for:
Monday:  Run 2 miles
Tuesday:  Cross-Training or Speed
Wednesday:  Run 3 miles
Thursday:  Strength
Friday:  Run 30 minutes, easy
Saturday:  Off
Sunday:  Run 4 miles

What I actually did for training:
Monday:  Run 3.04 miles
Tuesday:  Bike 11.45 miles/Strength Train
Wednesday:  Run 5.75 miles (5K to 10K training program week 7, day 2)
Thursday:  Bike ~3 miles/Strength Train
Friday:  Off
Saturday:  Run 30 minutes
Sunday:  Run 3.1 miles (Bucktown 5K)

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See you next week for another update!

3 comments:

  1. You are a rock star. It cracks me up reading your plan vs actual. Supposed to run 3m ran 5.75m. Like it's no big deal. Awesome! Keep it up Jen! You got this!

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    1. This actually made me laugh out loud, literally! I had decided early on that since I was already training and generally covering more miles per run than the initial weeks that I'd continue doing at least one long run so that I wasn't losing momentum. It seems to be working for me, I think. Anyway I guess I never really thought of it like I was supposed to run 3 but I ran 5 instead. That is funny!

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  2. Just goes to show how truly awesome you are!

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