I have been a really bad personal website blogger.
Wait, I remember why I became a bad blogger. I’m not a fan of the Squarespace’s “new” method of resizing images.
So, I’m going it again and embarking on another NYC Marathon training voyage.
Ok, looks like we are about 118 days away from NYC's Marathon.
I think this year, I will try to do a 16-week training plan, which starts on July 15th. I debated purchasing a virtual training plan from NYRR, but I decided to use a free one like in previous years. I figure that I have not been the most committed with my training plans so paying for one seems like a waste. Plus, I'm cheap. I wish that I was in better marathon-training shape going into this thing, but there is nothing that I can do about it at this point.
I decided to go with a 16-week marathon training plan from Runner's World ( *** ). This training plan seems to have all the nuts and bolts that are needed to run a decent marathon. I want to get a couple of long runs out of the way before setting a time goal for the marathon. The plan involves five days of running; however, I may have to modify that schedule a bit. Aside from my failed attempt at doing a 30-day run streak, I rarely have run more than four times a week after my back injuries. For this plan, I may alternate between three and five runs per week . . . depending on how I'm feeling. Maybe during the three-run weeks, I'll add an extra X-training day.
I decided to go with a 16-week marathon training plan from Runner's World ( *** ). This training plan seems to have all the nuts and bolts that are needed to run a decent marathon. I want to get a couple of long runs out of the way before setting a time goal for the marathon. The plan involves five days of running; however, I may have to modify that schedule a bit. Aside from my failed attempt at doing a 30-day run streak, I rarely have run more than four times a week after my back injuries. For this plan, I may alternate between three and five runs per week . . . depending on how I'm feeling. Maybe during the three-run weeks, I'll add an extra X-training day.
The plan has a little bit of everything.
Hills and strides
Cross training
(Obviously) long runs
400 and miles
Yasso 800s
Hopefully, this calendar will keep me on track (no pun). But, then again, it did not really work that well last year.
Plans for NYC Marathon 2020 9+1 Guaranteed Entry
So far, I have completed four of my nine races and my volunteer opportunity. On the docket:
NYRR Retro (4M) - July 13
TCS Marathon Training Session (10M) - July 20
NYRR Team Championships (5M) - July 27
NYC Marathon Training (12M) - August 11
Grete’s Great Gallop (10K) . -October 5
TCS Marathon (I probably should not use this as one of my 9+1 races, just in case) - November 3
See ya on the streets
See ya on the streets
The first week’s training plan