Mostly still asleep, I hear something that sounds like the alarm going off. Then it stops with me still basically asleep. Bennett hit snooze, reset it, or turned it off. I have no idea. A minute later some internal sense pulls my body out of sleep. I turn to Bennett and ask, “Did the alarm actually go off or was I dreaming?” But no, it is 5:30am and the alarm did indeed go off. I must have felt the pull of my official training schedule telling me “wake up you lazy slacker!”
Today is the first day of official marathon training! This first week of training isn’t really any different from how I’ve been running over the past month, but I know the mileage will start adding up soon. For those of you who are interested, I’m using Hal Higdon’s Novice 1 training schedule with a few modifications. Since I know my knees do not usually like running three days in a row, I’m rearranging the week day runs to split up the three days in a row of running. As a result, I am also moving around one of the rest days and the cross training day. I’m also including lifting and yoga. Hopefully my modified schedule will work well! I have the whole schedule entered in an excel spreadsheet with space for comments and everything!
This morning’s run was a great kick off run! I opted for running on the treadmill to do some hill work. Although my training plan doesn’t designate specific hill work runs, I am going to include them. MCM has hills at the beginning and the end! So, I better be able to run some hills without exhausting myself. I ran two out of my three miles this morning uphill with varying degrees of incline, something I would have not been able to do a month or so ago when I first started introducing hills into my runs!
No comments:
Post a Comment