Week 3

So this week has been sort of dysfunctional, with the extreme cold, I was able to get my rest day down perfectly, but I did some yoga and body weight exercises in lieu of going to gym to weight lift on Tuesday. Since I struggled to get up and had an early meeting, which closed the window time frame for the workout quite suddenly.

I did get my Wednesday run in yesterday with no trouble, good pace and good feeling throughout.

Thursday morning (today) is another story, its -8 with -30 windchill's outside, and I decided that going to gym was just not a good idea. So I did some body weight exercises in the house, 5 x 10 body weight squats, 5 x 10 one legged squats and 5 x 20 pushups. I will do the run scheduled for today, tomorrow, when hopefully we are no longer living at the north pole!

That will be three runs in a row however (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) so I am not sure how I will handle that, the last time I moved a run, I had one of my worst runs in awhile, the Saturday run is an easy run of 3 miles, so I need to make sure I make it very easy!

UPDATE: Thursday evening I went to gym with my daughter and got my running in, it was not bad once I got to the gym, so Thursday had exercise and the programmed run, my first two a day! So then Friday is back to the no run day with weightlifting.

Week Two Reporting!

Week 2 is over, and it was a reasonably good week, had the one clunker of a workout on Wednesday but otherwise good. I did struggle with technology on my Sunday long run, accidentally deleting and then not starting my Garmin, so really only got data on half of my long run.

So here are the weekly mileage totals to date.

Completed weeks
Week 1- 18 miles (8 mile long run)
Week 2- 19 miles (9 mile long run)

Future weeks
Week 3- will be a bit of a cut back in miles on the long run (6 miles), so I can rest just a little so only 18 miles total
Week 4- 23 miles with an 11 mile long run
Week 5- 24 miles with a 12 mile long run
Week 6- 24 miles, with Saturday speed work and a 9 mile long run. This may be rearranged a bit since I am traveling to DC on Sunday for the week and my schedule might be messy.
Week 7- 27 miles, 2 runs will be in DC, hopefully outdoors! Long run is 13 miles.
Week 8- 28 miles with potentially a half marathon that day, if I can find one.

I am slowly building up the miles, the program I based this on has a few rules that I am trying to apply.

• Total Mileage goes up 10% at most per week. (Week 3 to 4 violates this I know.)
• Long run is generally about 40-50% of your total weekly mileage

Week 1 of Wisconsin Marathon Training complete!

Had a good first week, completed all the workouts right on schedule (except for the long run, which was one day late). I hit all the time goals I established as well. Plus the weight training did not seem to interfere with the rest for my legs. My waking pulse which I track closely was in the positive zone each morning when I got up.

As for week 2, nothing terribly different other then the Wednesday run is going to be 3 miles at marathon pace minus 1 minute, as opposed to 2 miles last week, and my long run will be 9 miles instead of 8.

Week 4 has the first significant run, when I go into double digits for the first time at 11 miles. The next 12 weeks after week 4 all have long runs in the double digits except for one, so that's when I get into the meat of the plan