The Training Schedule, Retry

Something was weird with my last entry.  As in, the first half was entirely blank.  So, here is the first part of that entry...

I told my Sunday morning class about some up-coming races and invited them to join me for the Historic Half Marathon on May 16th.  In anticipation of hopefully a few of them joining me (because my class is awesome), here is the training schedule I"m personally following (see last entry)

If you are interested in completing a half marathon in Mid-May, then I suggest looking for an ambitious trainng schedule that starts out a bit slow to build endurance, then does a pretty heavy backload with a recovery week before the event.  I also recommend ignoring my advice and checking out Jeff Galloway's website, which I am afraid to post because I think that's what caused my last entry to be half blank.  I used Jeff Galloway's training program in his marathon book (which is a great read, btw) and had great results (I didn't die!).  He's a wonderful trainer for beginner and advanced runners.  He has a lot of great tips on his website that I suggest going through.  His program is 19 weeks long, so if you're doing the Half, I suggest taking out 2 weeks of your choice (but should not be the longest long run week).

See below for my schedule!

I managed to get my 3 miles in last night....on the treadmill, at race pace.  Suffice to say, I was exhausted at the end.  Treadmill kills me.

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