Another Easy Run and Current Training Plan
After a hectic first day back to work after vacation I decided to go for a shorter run last night to work off some of the stress. Normally I run Wednesday night with my running club, but tonight is my wife’s birthday and I’m taking her out for dinner – so no training.
Anyway I went for an easy 9K/5.6M run last night at an average 5:40/K (9:08/M) pace. My legs felt much better than Monday nights run, I think they are starting to loosen up.
So I have 4 ½ weeks to train before my 50K race on October 21.
This week I am going to keep the pace down, do some shorter runs and finish with about a 2 ½ hour long run on my hilly course. I’ll probably end up with about 58K/36M for the week.
Next week I am going to pick up the pace slightly and increase my mileage to about 77K/48M for the week. I will try for a 3 1/4 hour long run on my hilly route.
During the first week of October I want keep about the same weekly mileage, but will do a longer long run, probably a training marathon (flat course) on Oct. 3 (a holiday in Germany).
After that I will taper off a week or two before the 50K. So that’s the plan anyway, we’ll see how it goes.
My goal for the 50K is to finish strong, my finishing time is irrelevant. It’s a hilly course, so I’m just going take one step at a time and concentrate on not burning myself out during the first half of the race.
Comments
Sounds like a good plan. How great that your body is holding up so well with all this mileage. That's my biggest worry...I keep thinking that I should do a drop down week every third week while I'm training for my first 50K--I'll see how it goes.
In the meantime, you continue to inspire me!!!
Posted by: LoraRuns | September 20, 2006 11:44 AM
I like how you analyze your plan and make the best out of it. Sounds solid.
Posted by: olga | September 20, 2006 1:13 PM
Hope the birthday dinner was nice!
Posted by: neca | September 20, 2006 1:51 PM