We have resumed training. A mere 7 weeks shy of the Indy Marathon, having not run since the Geist half marathon in May (which, by the way, was AWESOME! 13.1 miles in about 2hr45min for a pace of 12.595 minutes / mile.).
We ran on Tuesday and Thursday, the same route both days (and both at night).
Phil & Niki
3.45 miles / 50 minutes
14.493 minutes / mile
Phil & Niki
3.45 miles / 46:41
13.531 minutes / mile
So, we're back to running, but we are nowhere near back to our previous level of fitness, as I see that in April we could have run this same distance at a pace of more than 3 minutes per mile faster.
In addition to not keeping up with running, we've not been keeping up with the wines either (but we have been drinking them). We'll start doing that again, too.
This weekend we have plans to do a lot of work on the house (I want to bamboo a bedroom which still has carpet and stuff in it). Also, we have to do homework, study for quals and run. We want to run for 2 hours on Saturday (during the day, this night running is not fun). HW and studying will take about the same amount of time. And the rest of the day will be spent on the floors. This weekend is going to suck.
Anyways, back to plans for running and whining wining. We have 7 weeks (including this one) to prepare our bodies to run 26.2 miles. It usually takes about 18 weeks to train from the ground up for a marathon. We have 7 weeks. So, the plan is to run further sooner. The week day runs will gradually get longer, while the weekend runs will rapidly get longer. Here's the plan now:
week 1: weekday runs: 1 hour each, weekend run: 2 hours
week 2: weekday runs: 1.5 hours each, weekend run: 3 hours
week 3: weekday runs: 2 hours each, weekend run: 4 hours
week 4: weekday runs: 2.5 hours each, weekend run: 5 hours
week 5: weekday runs: 3 hours each, weekend run: 6 hours (marathon distance)
week 6: weekday runs: 2 hours each, weekend run: 4 hours
week 7: weekday runs: 1 hour each, weekend run: 6 hours (at the Indy Marathon)
It'll be tough.
Also, I bought a Garmin Forerunner 305 to track our runs (HR monitor and GPS). Very cool device.
Phil
