Welcome back and I hope you all had a safe but jolly Christmas?!
It has been over eight weeks since my last post (sorry) and if you will remember, I embarked on a marathon training schedule that would get me to marathon distance in 100 days?
Wellllll, how have you got on Tina?
Those that know me well, will know only too well how I have got on.....badly!!
Week One, which started during the first week of November, should have looked rather like this:
Week One:
Monday: Rest
Tuesday: 30 minutes continuous running
Wednesday: Rest
Thursday: 30 minutes continuous running
Friday: Rest
Saturday: 25 minutes continuous running
Sunday: 60 minutes jogging and walking
I did rather well on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, in fact, I excelled on those days. However, Tuesday didn't happen, nor Saturday, but Thursday and Sunday did - hooray!!
The reason Week One went awry is a simple one - I easily persuade myself that there is something far more important to do than running, which normally involves crisps, cider and/or gin and possibly Emmerdale or re-runs of GreenWing - not terribly impressive.
It is Day 58 of the schedule and Day 56 (Sunday) should have been 'Half Marathon Race or 12 miles endurance run' ...... I confirm that didn't happen. (I did manage an 8:10 mile run on the 8th of November, which was technically Day 7, and it sort of went downhill from there - I guess I peaked too soon :)
November saw me do a total of 14 hours running with 74 miles covered. That actually was above the 10.5 hours the schedule had in mind for me, but it was very haphazard. I would run on a rest day and rest on about four days in a row and then run for twice the amount of time allocated and then run a quarter of the time allocated.
December so far, up until 28th, has seen me run a total of only 7 hours with 32 miles covered; but I have 3 days left to make up the 18 hours I should have run which I guess is around 95 miles.
Therefore in the next 3 days I have to cover 63 miles!!.
I have a feeling I may fall a little short - what say you?
In November I had entered an online challenge to run 50 miles during the month, with people kindly sponsoring me for charity. I believe it was the fact that I had committed to going the distance because of the charity, that saw me complete it.
December just saw me eating my way through the Christmas goodies early (just to check they were ok, obviously).
January 2021 draws near, with my running four running groups, two for those that have progressed up to 3 miles running and two for complete beginners. I feel, as Run Leader, that I really should be setting an example....what if one of them reads this? hahahaha.
New Year's Resolutions are not for me, "if you don't make them, you can't break them", has always been my motto HOWEVER I may try a bit harder at keeping to training more consistently, after all, my marathon distance date is 7th February, which is only 44 days away..........
keep safe, more soon (ish) xxx
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