After weeks of debating and deliberating, I've finally chosen which marathon schedule I'll ignore for 16 weeks in the run up to my next marathon. It's a Runners' World schedule and I've already been customising it... when I say customising - I mean colouring in.I've marked it up with a few key dates so you can [...]
With less than two months to go until marathon training starts in earnest, I've been spending more time than usual looking at training plans, comparing them and itching for training to start. It seems odd that I don't see the running I'm doing at the moment as 'training' but more 'maintenance', and as a result [...]
Yesterday saw the second run of my training schedule and the plan stuck to my kitchen cupboard called for a 'Tempo Run' of 5 miles.A tempo run you say. Do I require music for this? Should I be trying to run at a similar tempo to the tunes blasting out from my iPod? And would [...]
I'm a planner - I always have been. I actually enjoy planning - especially planning holidays. For me a holiday starts the day that I pick up a new notebook and start looking up flights on the internet. So it's no surprise that having a training plan for my half marathon is going to be [...]
I've downloaded myself a half-marathon training plan in preparation for starting training for the Great Eastern Run in October. The world of training plans is vast and quite overwhelming - should I choose one based on how fast I want to complete the race, or one designed for a beginner, or more of an intermediate?I [...]