First Day of Marathon Training
Today is officially the first day of my scheduled training for the Steamtown Marathon. My schedule includes 16 weeks of running, the distance of which totals 604 miles. The maximum distance I’ll reach is 40 miles in a week.
At lunch today, I was supposed to run six miles at an 8:07 pace. Here’s what happened:
– 6 mile run, ~7:30 pace
Mile 1: 7:33
Mile 2: 7:35
Mile 3: 7:36
Mile 4: 7:46
Mile 5: 7:50
Mile 6: 7:08
Later in the day, I repeated my swimming routine from Memorial Day, but added a few more laps here and there:
– Warm-up freestyle for 6 minutes (completed 5 laps)
– 3 x 100 kicks: freestyle with fins and board
– 1 x 100 freestyle, rest 10 seconds
– 1 x 100 freestyle, rest 20 seconds
– 1 x 100 freestyle, rest 30 seconds
– 1 x 100 freestyle
– 3 x 100 pulls, freestyle; breathe every 8 strokes, with paddles and buoy
– 300 free – swim down