Unlike #1, where I was excited to do something I'd never done before, and marathon #2, where I sort of skated through, #3 is going to be somewhat challenging. Why?
1) I'm training for Big Sur, the hilliest marathon in the country, by running in Chicago, the least hilly place ever.
2) I'm trying to fold a decent amount of cycling in. Unlike #2's once-a-week, or #1's no cycling at all, for #3 I'm going to be doing 4 hours/week on trainer as part of an indoor class. That's pretty hefty, and forces the schedule to shuffle a little.
3) I for some reason chose Hal's Intermediate I, a training program that has only 1 rest day, and then added the cycling on top of that. Erm. It's easy to put this stuff on paper, it's a little harder to actually do it. Thanks to Bob for helping make this fit together, but it's still a pretty tall order. So, we'll give it a shot. If this is v3.0, v3.1 might be dropping one run a week, and there are ways to make v3.2 too, if I'm burning out. But why not shoot the moon?
So, I'm already running at 10:30 pace, no problem, which will get me to the 4:35 I wanted last year (before I got sick and puked during the marathon- no joke). BUT with those hills, who knows what will happen. My goal is to finish in the 6 hour time limit- I really hope that's not an issue, or I shouldn't even be trying- but be comfortable running a decent pace and be able to enjoy the scenery. Really, I'd like to come out of this in May with a fun race under my belt but better equipped for MTB season.
And so this morning the program started, on the shortest day of the year, with a soft dusting of snow hiding the ice on the sidewalks.
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Good luck!
I started mine yesterday with my wife. Maybe we should hook up for one of the long days. Any races planned along the way?
I am looking at a 13.1 somewhere in March, probably... and maybe the Shamrock Shuffle, to redeem myself after last year, but that would be it.
Got any hills by you?
You can put a pretty good loop together thru Willow Springs and Palos. Big Sur would be an AWESOME marathon. I'm back in a training/running routine again as well, had to back out of next month's disney marathon,because of a november fracture but I'm back to the routine. Too bad I don't know you or we could get a group of riders together and go out and RUN! - Ray
Julie-There is some elevation gain down here in Beverly, but Ray suggested what I was going to say, Send Ben out for a day of trail and we could run the hills. I was looking at the Cary Half in the spring which falls on week 7 or 8.
Ray- we met once on a ride with Seguin waaay back in the spring.
Lets try and set something up after you are healed and ready for some miles.
Damon
I was looking at Cary too, at the recco of two teammates (Gerrerd and Julie) who are running it. Woot!
Hey Julie,
We met briefly at a cross race in Wisconsin. Jeff mentioned that you were running Big Sur this year, so I came over to check out your blog. That is one of the marathons that I am interested in for 2011!
I am also using a modified version of HH's Intermediate I: 4 days running/2 days crosstraining; two 20 milers; a mix of steady state, speedwork, and hill workouts.
For hills, I usually do incline interval workouts on the treadmill. Runner's World has some great suggestions for this. I felt that it really helped me last year for hilly Boston. Otherwise, there are a couple of good inclines up in Rogers Park and some hilly trails out in the suburbs. I am generally too lazy to drive anywhere, though!
Good luck in your training!
-Dana
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yea, this schedule is a trip.
p.s. im sick of the bike.
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