This forum has been dead for a while so I thought I would ask some advice. I missed my baseline 10k this past weekend due to a funeral. There are no more in the immediate future. I live in S Tx and 10ks are not common. I signed up for a hilly half March 2nd. My 10k will be sometime in April. I have a new hilly training course I started running last wednesday. I plan on running this course every wednesday. I tend to run my long runs fast and wednesdays and easy the rest of the time. My plan is to do a 6 mile tempo on wednesday during this run. Next week I plan on hitting the hills hard. This sunday I'll do 10-14 and next Sunday another 16 then slack off. Looking for advice.

First of all, your program looks pretty good the way it is. One thing that jumps out at me, however, is that your average daily runs are on the quick side relative to your race times. If you are recovering well and not feeling tired duirng your daily activities it should be fine. Otherwise, it might be something to take a look at. If I were to change anything it would be to add some long intervals at what you estimate your current half marathon pace to be. For example 5 x 1 mile with a 75-90 sec jog between each. This would make 2 key workouts each week—your Wednesday workout on the hills plus the miles I just mentioned. A big key to making this work would be slowing down on the other 5 days of the week. This is just an idea. As I said, I don’t see anything wrong with continuing the plan that you mentioned. For the 10k you might need to do eventually do some quicker workouts, but I like the idea of putting in a strength phase first as you are doing.

I had what I think was a breakthrough training run today. Had a solid LR on sunday and ran easy the next two days. Hoped to do a six mile tempo today during the run. Warmed up the first two miles then picked up the pace. I had hoped to do 7:20 for six but did it for ten. Have been running easy all other runs as per Jim. Don't feel the soreness I did before when I was running other runs faster. Will go easy for the next two days then do 14 on same course saturday. Target race is March 2nd.

Thanks Jim. The intervals will have to wait until after the HM and the ski trip the second week of March. I'm feeling really confident now.