The first part of my training directions is a 3-week pre-training program designed to take you from 100% couch potato to able to run for 20 minutes continuously (which is what the authors seem to consider the basic fitness level necessary to consider running a half marathon). The second part of the directions is the real training program.
Week 1: Completed perfectly!
Week 2: Completed perfectly!
Week 3: Completed perfectly!
Week 4: Sick, did nothing (rarg!)
Week 5: Completed perfectly! (Redid week 3's training to recoup conditioning.)
Week 6: Ran only twice, for 20 min. each. (Sleeping too oddly to train or do anything else correctly, so just tried to maintain that key 20-minute fitness level.)
Week 2: Completed perfectly!
Week 3: Completed perfectly!
Week 4: Sick, did nothing (rarg!)
Week 5: Completed perfectly! (Redid week 3's training to recoup conditioning.)
Week 6: Ran only twice, for 20 min. each. (Sleeping too oddly to train or do anything else correctly, so just tried to maintain that key 20-minute fitness level.)
This was all a little mentally agonizing because I was on the cusp of starting the real training for THREE WEEKS. Ugh! Sooooo close to being able to say, "I'm training for a half-marathon" instead of the significantly less awesome, "I'm training to run for 20 minutes". Fortunately, I rallied, and
Week 7: Completed perfectly!
Which brings us to this week:
--Monday-Thursday: Completed perfectly!
--Friday: Did not run due to work- and calorie-related exhaustion.
--Saturday: It's already 5:30pm, and I'm blogging instead of making up yesterday's run.
NUTRITION
We're just not going to talk about that. :)
(And maybe we'll get our duff up and go buy some food today, promptly four days after we ran out and began subsisting on steam buns.)
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