Half marathon training

[Héctor]

Ok. I'll keep you informed. Thank you for your feedback.

[Héctor]

Today's morning pulse 48, slept 6h30 aprox.

[TheEd]

the am pulse looks fairly low .. if there is a change in this then the body will be warning you

hopefully things will go more smoothly now

enjoy

TheEd

[Héctor]

Today it is 44-45. It's raining this morning, so I won't be running until night if rain stopped by then (didn't run yesterday). I still don't know what to do, maybe I shouldn't race saturday and take things easy for a couple more days.

[TheEd]

hope you come to a decision that is comfortable for you

TheEd

[Héctor]

Hi TheEd. Hadn't run since my 6x1k last tuesday until today did the 5k paced run . Completed it in 20' 28", so it was faster than I should (some back wind help), after a 3k warm-up.

Splits

1) 4', avghr 161, maxhr 171

2) 4' 4", 172, 176

3) 4' 7", 174, 179

4) 4' 9", 176, 190

5) 4' 8", 178, 180

I think I will complete this cycle and then switch to a full marathon training plan, as I seem somewhat stuck in my 10k progress.

Rgds.

Héctor

[TheEd]

OK Hector, let me know what your plan are for marathon training, please?

cheers

TheEd

[Héctor]

I’m planning to run a marathon on Sept. the 9th, so roughly 3 and a half months from now. Last year I kept the 10 k schedule until mid August, having arrived to 30k saturday long runs, with a half marathon 4 weeks before (August 14th), but then, because of some niggles couldn’t do as many specific workouts as I think I should have done taking into account my lack of experience, and faded badly after 28k. I will try to be a little more specifically prepared, I think that’s possible. My long runs are up to 20k more or less now, so I’ll keep increasing them every other week by 2 or 3k and alternate some marathon paced runs (must arrive to a realistic pace) and faster (not much) workouts in between. Of course any suggestions are welcome.