Oh heyyyyy there. Between a midterm, school, work, an essay, and Passover x2 it feels goooood to sit down and catch my breath for a second. Wednesday’s tend to be my “catch-up” day since I don’t go to work and I only have one class. I definitely needed it today since I feel like I’ve been on the go and booked to the max these past few days. After a day of running errands and catching up on schtuff and I’m feeling ready to conquer the rest of the week 🙂
Tonight was Team in Trainings “Send Off” for my upcoming race! The Nike Women’s DC crew met up and got some more information about race weekend.
Turns out quite a few of us have been struggling to train this winter thanks to the brutal conditions. Even though I’ve been a bit unmotivated to lace-up my shoes and run most of the time, attending the meting today got me excited once again for race weekend. I’m so happy to be running this race and fundraising for Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training. As a kid my dad raced a car across American with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society raising awareness for bone marrow donors and I’m proud to be continuing his tradition with an organization that has meant so much to my family.
I’ve been following the same training plan (more or less) that I used last time around. It’s not very traditional and I will only taper for one week following my lone double digit run this weekend. I still don’t know a whole lot about creating a perfect training plan for a race so I decided to just stick with the plan I used last time since it worked and I felt great come race day. After having a strugglefest 8 mile run this weekend I’m a wee bit worried about how 10 miles is going to go this weekend. I’m not quite sure what happened but I’m pretty sure I “hit the wall” as they say due to not eating enough before my run… or at least that’s what I’m hoping happened.
Here’s my plan for this week of training (yes it’s Wednesday so some of this already happened…)
Monday: 30/30 Pilates Reformer + Barre class @ Flex Studios (HOLY SORE THIGHS!)
Tuesday: 45 min cycling @ Revolve
Wednesday: Uplifting Strength @ Uplift
Thursday: 4-5 mile run
Friday: Uplifting Strength @ Uplift
Saturday: 10 MILES BABY!
Sunday: sweet sweet rest because it’s TAPER TIME
Remember that half a second it felt like spring? That was glorious…
How long do you taper for before a race?
What kind of training plan do you follow for half marathons?
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