I haven't got a lot of running in over the last couple of weeks, so it's prudent that I start off my training with shorter distances for the next few weeks and then only start increasing the distance once I feel comfortable again.
I'm going to have to draw up some sort of training schedule soon, but I'm thinking about doing four runs of 3 miles and one run of 5 miles each week for the next couple of weeks. I will probably increase the long day distance by at least 1 mile per week. that should give me lots of time to get me to the 15-mile mark.
Completing 13 miles in less than 2 hours means that I'll have to run a 9-minute mile (13 X 9 = 1h57m). In all of the training for the full marathon that I did, I never really did better than a 10-minute mile, so cutting out an extra minute per mile and maintaining that pace is going to be difficult.
Tonight was the first night that I got out as part of my new training schedule and I surprised myself by running a 9:45 mile. By focusing on speed over short distances for the next few weeks, I should be able to get that down to 9 minutes.
- Mike
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