Today wrapped up 1 week of half-marathon training! My calves are continuing to be annoyingly tight no matter how much stretching and foam rolling I do, and my IT band is definitely not 100%, but all in all I was able to get in my 3 scheduled runs this week without any real problems. I'm just happy I am running again!!! Plus the weather was absolutely gorgeous this morning. Could spring FINALLY be here to stay?!? Gosh I hope so!
This week was an easy start: two 3 mile runs during the week and a 4 mile long run this morning (+ cross training). Pretty simple, but after my spotty past few months of running, an easy start is exactly what I need! When I trained for the first half-marathon, I used Hal Higdon's Novice half-marathon training plan. I liked a lot of things about it, but I decided I wanted to tweak some things for this training cycle...First, I wanted to add in some recovery weeks between the long runs as the mileage builds up. Also, I wanted to add a little more of a taper. I altered these two things, plus a 12 mile long run like I did for the last half-marathon (Hal's plan only gets you up to 10 miles).
Hope you had a wonderful weekend and got to spend some time outside!!
Congrats on finishing week one! I'm planning to start training for my first half after I finish the Couch to 10k program. I want to use Hal's training plan as well. I'm going to take your advice! Good luck!
ReplyDeleteyay!! good job on your training this week. have you tried the power bar brand gels? I think they are pretty good actually...I like strawberry banana and the vanilla one!
ReplyDeleteSticking with a plan is a great way to do it! Wishing you the best as you follow Hal :) Hope those calves loosen up for you.
ReplyDeleteHooray! The first step is the biggest step!
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