When life happens... and screws up your training schedule ??? (Read 916 times)

That's what I would do. Since I started running, I've found that however many days I PLAN to run each week, I usually do that number minus one. That's why I'm trying to do 6 days a week now - I usually get in 5 that way. I've also found that I really do have to plan my life around running, instead of the other way around, or I don't get many miles in. That's the only way I've been able to increase from 9 miles a week to 30. It's so worth it! Good luck!

A few days off should do you good. You might even get by skipping this week. If you have to repeat the week just consider it base building

My approach is the opposite to Teresas. I run 4 times a week so i get lots of flexibility in the actual days i run. i'm always swapping them around but i always make sure i fit them in cos i get cabin fever if i don't get my run in. The other thing is i can usually 'fit' a run in at 5am!!! generally life doesn't get in the way at that time! You'd be amazed at how many people are out there too. But we're all different and you need to do what will keep you going. if you don't want to be a slave to a schedule then don't, you'll enjoy it lots more and are more likely to stick with it.

Slaptear, I found a whole lot more time on my schedule by learning to be able to run at night as well as in the early morning. Beginning and end of day works well for the whole showering thing for me. Somehow a mid-day shower after a run just eats into my schedule and puts immense pressure on my day. But a shower at 6:30 a.m. or 11 p.m. just fits fine.

You can get up just a little earlier and squeeze your run in. My mentor describes life as "The stuff that gets in the way of running". Like many others said, you have to make running a priority. If you run in your spare time, you'll never get your training in.

My mentor describes life as "The stuff that gets in the way of running". Like many others said, you have to make running a priority. If you run in your spare time, you'll never get your training in.

Like Mr. Inertia said - make it a priority to get it done. We all have things that HAVE to be done (call them urgencies - work, picking up the kids at school/bus, dr. visits etc.). No way to get around them. But when you say "I don't have time to run" what that really means is "I value spending my time on _________ more than I value spending it on running." You're making the choice to do something else instead of run (be it sleep, bills, watch TV, dinner, etc.) Every day you get a check for 24 hours. How you choose to spend those 24 hours is up to you, and making running a higher priority sometimes means rearranging the lower priorities to fit that. It's only 15-20 minutes - you can find that somewhere in your day, can't you? Plus remember how exercise gives you more energy in the long run, so you'll be able to get that other *stuff* done quicker in the future... Good luck, and stick with it.

I just sleep less to make time for running. I can get by with 6-6.5 hours training twice a day. But I like at least one 45 minute nap on weekend long run days. I'll get plenty of sleep when I am dead.