Here is what my current two-week training span is supposed to look like:
Week 1. Rest, run 3miles, run 7miles, run 4miles, rest, run 10miles,
cross-train.
Week 2. Rest, run 3miles, run 7miles, run 4miles, rest, run 15miles,
cross-train
Here is what my current two-week training span actually looks like:
1. Run 10miles. Go to a wedding.
2. Get sick. Watch MTV's “The Gaunlet III” reruns.
3. Work at a ski race. Drink hot cocoa.
4. Party with college kids. Pour hard-a down the ice luge chutes.
5. Go out west for a ski vacation. Don’t run. Ever.
For marathon training, I recommend plan number one. For fun, I recommend the latter of the plans; be warned,
however, that it will absolutely make you suck at running, and will, in fact, make you very sad you don’t live in a ski town where it snows every night and is sunny and 30degrees every day and everyone is relaxed and kind and smiley. It will also make you dread going back to your “normal” job outside Boston where everyone moves too fast and is too stressed out all the time and you have to live in a dorm with 25 high school kids who are trading flus with each other and miserably awaiting spring break which is still two weeks away. Well, maybe that last part will be different for you but I’m giving you an example to work with here.
Week 1. Rest, run 3miles, run 7miles, run 4miles, rest, run 10miles,
cross-train.
Week 2. Rest, run 3miles, run 7miles, run 4miles, rest, run 15miles,
cross-train
Here is what my current two-week training span actually looks like:
1. Run 10miles. Go to a wedding.
2. Get sick. Watch MTV's “The Gaunlet III” reruns.
3. Work at a ski race. Drink hot cocoa.
4. Party with college kids. Pour hard-a down the ice luge chutes.
5. Go out west for a ski vacation. Don’t run. Ever.
For marathon training, I recommend plan number one. For fun, I recommend the latter of the plans; be warned,
however, that it will absolutely make you suck at running, and will, in fact, make you very sad you don’t live in a ski town where it snows every night and is sunny and 30degrees every day and everyone is relaxed and kind and smiley. It will also make you dread going back to your “normal” job outside Boston where everyone moves too fast and is too stressed out all the time and you have to live in a dorm with 25 high school kids who are trading flus with each other and miserably awaiting spring break which is still two weeks away. Well, maybe that last part will be different for you but I’m giving you an example to work with here.
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