My Marathon Training Plan

Date	WEEK	MON	TUE	WED	THU	FRI	SAT	SUN	Notes
17/12/12	1	Strength	30 tempo	6 m run	3 x hill	Yoga	5 m pace	10
24/12/12	2	Strength	30 tempo	6 m run	3 m pace	Yoga	5 m run	11	Christmas Wk
31/12/12	3	Strength	4 x 800	6 m run	30 tempo	Yoga	6 m pace	8	New Year Wk
07/01/13	4	Strength	4 x hill	6 m run	35 tempo	Yoga	6 m pace	13
14/01/13	5	Strength	35 tempo	6 m run	3 m pace	Yoga	7 m run	14
21/01/13	6	Strength	5 x 800	6 m run	35 tempo	Yoga	7 m pace	10	My Birthday Wk
28/01/13	7	Strength	40 tempo	7 m run	5 x hill	Yoga	8 m pace	16
04/02/13	8	Strength	40 tempo	7 m run	3 m pace	Yoga	8 m run	17
11/02/13	9	Strength	6 x 800	8 m run	40 tempo	Yoga	Rest	Half Marathon	Brighton
18/02/13	10	Strength	6 x hill	7 m run	45 tempo	Yoga	9 m pace	19
25/02/13	11	Strength	45 tempo	9 m run	4 m pace	Yoga	10 m run	12
04/03/13	12	Strength	7 x 800	9 m run	45 tempo	Yoga	6 m pace	20	Stafford 20
11/03/13	13	Strength	50 tempo	9 m run	7 x hill	Yoga	10 m pace	13	Stafford Half
18/03/13	14	Strength	45 tempo	10 m run	5 m pace	Yoga	6 m run	23
25/03/13	15	Strength	8 x 800	10 m run	40 tempo	Yoga	10 m pace	20	Sean Birthday Wk
01/04/13	16	Strength	30 tempo	10 m run	6 x hill	Yoga	4 m pace	12
08/04/13	17	Strength	30 tempo	8 m run	4 m pace	Yoga	4 m run	8
15/04/13	18	Strength	4 x 400	6 m run	Yoga	Yoga	2 m run	Marathon	Virgin London Marathon
This training plan has been adapted from an excellent website and training plan provided by Hal Hidgon http://www.halhigdon.com/training/51142/Marathon-Advanced-2-Training-Program
and was suggested to me by @Gearselected

Lapsed Blogger

Hello my name is Kirsten and I'm lapsed blogger, it has been over 29 days since my last blog, but I have plenty of good excuses why I have blogged and they are:

I have had to hand in two assignments for my HNC course; 1 on Anatomy and Physiology and 2 on Sport psychology. I have thoroughly enjoyed writing both of them; YES it has been hard work , YES did I want to throw  the towel in , YES was I convinced I couldn't do it and YES Google is friend YES! I have learnt so much during the course and I have been able to apply a lot of the theory into my running.  This means unfortunately some of my running buddies have had me psycho- analysing them and boring them with the eccentric, isometric and concentric muscle contractions, but it is a small price to pay.

The other reason for my lack of blogging is Go-Vember, it’s a running take on Mo-Vember, where we agree to run/walk/swim or cycle at least a mile every day during November.  I very nearly stumbled on day 2 but was Facebook shamed (in the nicest possible way) into going out for a walk at 9:45pm to clock my mile.  It is now day 21 and miles logged are 133 (132 running and 1 walking), I am aiming for 170 by then end of the month. It is tough going but I am still getting out there….longing for a rest day in December!

I have found both my course and Go-Vember tough but then again….. is something really worth having if you don’t work for it????

Challenging ourselves is something we need to do more; feel the fear and do it anyway.  What do we really have to lose anyway? a bit of pride maybe if we fail BUT think of what you gain if you succeed a) sense of achievement b) a new experience c) sense of fulfilment personally I think that is a chance worth taking. 

Oh and by the way got my 1^st mark back from one of my assignments and it was a distinction!! Me a distinction!! 

Busy busy busy

Gosh it has been a while since I have blogged anything, there are couple of reasons for this and is mainly lack of time, but on a positive note I have out running, so not everything has stopped

This September I signed up to a part time HNC course in Sport and Fitness, which is great fun. I’m loving learning all this new stuff about anatomy and physiology and sport psychology but it’s a struggle to fit it in with working full time, training 4 days a week, fundraising for MacMillan Cancer Support and being a full time girlfriend.  It definitely feels like a 3 Weetabix day but at the moment the plates are still spinning, they are getting a little wobbly at times but they are still up there!

I have kicked off my fundraising set up my fundraising page started talking about it on Facebook and Twitter and so far I am up to 9% of my total which is good, I have more ideas for fundraising and I just need to kick these off, but I think that there is a fine line between how often you can talk about fundriasing, else you run the risk to annoying people, but hope to get the balance right, but if you want to make a small donation just click on the just giving sponsor me button on the right hand side :o) ---------->

I have just finished my last major run of the year, the Great Birmingham Half Marathon; it was great fun but tinged with sadness as a runner died just after he finished the race. He was a young, only 36, years old, I am not sure what the cause of death was and my thoughts and sympathy go out to his family, he ran his last race.  

There are a number of local races, either 10k or 10 miles, I could enter before the year ends; but I have not signed up to anything which does feel a little strange, perhaps it is because I have my studies to occupy my mind and races due consume a lot of the weekend which is valuable study and assignment time. 

Perhaps is also that my mind is already thinking about my first ever marathon London in April 13 and thinking about how to train.  I am struggling to find a suitable training plan; I am currently running 4 times a week, my long run is normally in excess of 13-14 miles and putting in 35-40 miles a week, the plans I have found so far seem to be going back to the beginning and really lowering my mileage, which is something I don’t want to do.  I am going to have to do a bit more research and see what I can find.

Let the search begin...