Blog Post 100-A look at my upcoming training plans!

ALREADY!

August is here!!  My full fledged 1/2 Marathon training will start in a couple of weeks!  This will be lengthy, but here is my proposed training plan.  It's based off of Hal Higdon's Novice 2 plan.  I've modified it due to the 2 Half Marathons that I'm going to be training for.  Some of these distances are actually shorter than what I'm doing regularly now, but the important part is that I'm going to be training for a faster finish time.  The important runs are going to be the Runs marked PACE.  This year will also be different due to the fact that as the temperature drops outside, I'll still be training outside for the most part.  The Monumental Half is here in Indy at the beginning of November!  BRRR!

Week	Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thurs	Fri	Sat
A-12	8/12	8/13	8/14	8/15	8/16	8/17	8/18
1	Cross	Rest	3 M Run	3 M Run	3 M Run	Rest	4 M Run
A-12	8/19	8/20	8/21	8/22	8/23	8/24	8/25
2	Cross	Rest	3 M Run	3 M Pace	3 M Run	Rest	5 M Run
A-12	8/26	8/27	8/28	8/29	8/30	8/31	9/1
3	Cross	Rest	3 M Run	4 M Run	3 M Run	Rest	6 M Run
S-12	9/2	9/3	9/4	9/5	9/6	9/7	9/8
4	Cross	Rest	3 M Run	4 M PACE	3 M Run	Rest	7 M Run
S-12	9/9	9/10	9/11	9/12	9/13	9/14	9/15
5	Cross	Rest	3 M Run	4 M Run	3 M Run	Rest	8 M Run
S-12	9/16	9/17	9/18	9/19	9/20	9/21	9/22
6	Cross	Rest	3 M Run	4 M PACE	3 M Run	Rest	5-K Race
S-12	9/23	9/24	9/25	9/26	9/27	9/28	9/29
7	Cross	Rest	3 M Run	5 M Run	3 M Run	Rest	9 M Run
S-12	9/30	10/1	10/2	10/3	10/4	10/5	10/6
8	Cross	Rest	3 M Run	5 M PACE	3 M Run	Rest	10 M Run
O-12	10/7	10/8	10/9	10/10	10/11	10/12	10/13
9	Cross	Rest	3 M Run	5 M Run	3 M Run	Rest	10-K Race
O-12	10/14	10/15	10/16	10/17	10/18	10/19	10/20
10	Cross	Rest	3 M Run	5 M PACE	3 M Run	Rest	11 M Run
O-12	10/21	10/22	10/23	10/24	10/25	10/26	10/27
11	Cross	Rest	3 M Run	5 M Run	3 M Run	Rest	12 M Run
O-12	10/28	10/29	10/30	10/31	11/1	11/2	11/3
12	Rest	3 M Run	2 M PACE	2 M Run	2 M Run	Rest	Half Marathon!
N-12	11/4	11/5	11/6	11/7	11/8	11/9	11/10
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N-12	11/11	11/12	11/13	11/14	11/15	11/16	11/17
4	Cross	Rest	3 M Run	4 M PACE	3 M Run	Rest	7 M Run
N-12	11/18	11/19	11/20	11/21	11/22	11/23	11/24
5	Cross	Rest	3 M Run	4 M Run	3 M Run	Rest	8 M Run
N-12	11/25	11/26	11/27	11/28	11/29	11/30	12/1
6	Cross (Space Coast Half?)	Rest	3 M Run	4 M PACE	3 M Run	Rest	5-K Race
D-12	12/2	12/3	12/4	12/5	12/6	12/7	12/8
7	Cross	Rest	3 M Run	5 M Run	3 M Run	Rest	9 M Run
D-12	12/9	12/10	12/11	12/12	12/13	12/14	12/15
8	Cross	Rest	3 M Run	5 M PACE	3 M Run	Rest	10 M Run
D-12	12/16	12/17	12/18	12/19	12/20	12/21	12/22
9	Cross	Rest	3 M Run	5 M Run	3 M Run	Rest	10-K Race
D-12	12/23	12/24	12/25	12/26	12/27	12/28	12/29
10	Cross	Rest	3 M Run	5 M PACE	3 M Run	Rest	11 M Run
D-12	12/30	12/31	1/1	1/2	1/3	1/4	1/5
11	Cross	Rest	3 M Run	5 M Run	3 M Run	Rest	12 M Run
J-13	1/6	1/7	1/8	1/9	1/10	1/11	1/12
12	Rest	3 M Run	2 M PACE	2 M Run	2 M Run	Rest	Half Marathon!

After the Monumental, I imagine that more and more of my training will once again return to the Treadmill-o-doom, depending on what kind of winter we wind up with here in Indy.

Yes, there is a possible 3rd 1/2 Marathon in that training schedule, the Space Coast 1/2 Marathon.  I'm seriously thinking about attempting this, but I also don't want to possibly injure myself going into the Walt Disney World 1/2.  I think if I do enter it, I won't go into it looking for any type of good timing.  I'd just want to do it to do it.  With today's walk, I now know that I can keep a good walking pace that would keep me ahead of the sweepers.  IF I decide to do this race, I'll of course have to make a few tweaks to this plan.

Once I put this together, I then realized that this is almost a half a years worth of training!  Twenty-two weeks from beginning till the end at WDW 1/2 in January!


Thanks for Reading!  Regards,
~Kipp

Lighter, Stronger & Faster for 2013!
Walt Disney World 1/2 Marathon
January 7, 2012-  FINISHED 3:48:49 Registered for the 2013 5K & 1/2!