I am excited to be training for the ZOOMA Half Marathon on September 15. I am also excited to share that I will train using the Hansons Half Marathon Method. In a nutshell, this training is based on the concept of cumulative fatigue. You train your body to run often so that you are frequently running on tired legs. The idea is to run this way so that during the last miles of a race you are prepared to push through the final miles.
Week #3, June 11-17
M Ran 4.00 miles
T OFF
W OFF
TH Ran 7.25 miles
F Ran 3.01 miles
S Ran 4.00 miles
S Ran 8.00 miles
4 miles to start off the week and my first day of summer school. I have 12 students in my class and it is an ideal number to have in a classroom. They finished first grade early in the month and will be going to 2nd grade in August.
The next day I got my first picture. Made me smile.
I didn’t run on Wednesday because I woke up late in the morning. After school I had a PD and then was too tired to run. I did Wednesday’s run (6×800 with 400m recovery and 1.5 miles warmup and cooldown) on Thursday. Each interval was on pace except the last two. Not too bad, right? I did this run in the Brooks PureFlow 7 and afterwards noticed that my left leg/calf was hurting again. The same thing happened the last time I ran in them but I just wanted to make sure and that is why I ran in them again. Well, not no more. I am sending these back.
The rest of the runs were all easy runs. It’s been hot in Chicago and it was tough being out there for both of my runs on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday I did get up early but didn’t start running till almost 8am. By the the sun was out and made it even more hot.
I knew it was going to be just as hot on Sunday so this time I made sure to get out there even earlier. I saw the sunrise. So pretty!
I did 8 miles @12:51 average pace. I struggle a lot on this run. But I don’t care because I got it done and it was within my easy pace range anyway.
Total mileage for the week: 26.27 miles
Total mileage for this training cycle: 67.31 miles
Total mileage for the year: 518.71 miles
Here’s how training has gone so far:
Week 1 and 2