Oh, I knew I had another question.  Is there a way to go straight to the last unread post on these forums, or is that a feature you have to pay for?  Thanks.

There is not a way, whether you pay or not.  I must've read 10 posts from Eric welcoming us here, posted in 10 different threads, but I think one of them mentioned that this is not currently possible, though he's thinking about it for later.  IIRC.

Hi Scotty {{wave}}.  Did I miss Vance?

Off to my dreadmill run.

Happy Birthday, Kristi!!

Hey, everyone! Did my fastest 5 (i think) this morning at 41 min, so ave 8:11 min miles. Needed it.

Hey, everyone! Did my fastest 5 (i think) this morning at 41 min, so ave 8:11 min miles. Needed it.

Awood, yes I’ll be doing yoga.  I honestly think I do yoga almost every day if not every day.  It’s funny to think that I used to hate it. LOL running 10 second miles and crossing state lines!   I hope it works correctly for you tonight.

Liz, omg you just made my day or maybe my week.  I’m having such a rough week at work where I feel like the education system has let down all of my students and that I’m just can’t do anything right by any of my kiddos.  Of course none of it is true.  As for running this week has been rough due to my stupid cold, my cousin qualified for Western States (I am super happy for him), and I feel like I’m still such a noob.  I can’t believe that anyone would be inspired by me so thank you! You honestly made me a little teary eyed.

This is going to be my second half marathon and I’m trying for it different than I did for my first. Since I had 24 weeks to plan for it I started by building up my weekly miles to 40 mpw.  Those miles have been mostly easy miles but with some fast finishes.  I only run 3 long runs a month since one week of every month is a cut back week for me where I don’t run anything longer than 8 or 10 miles and ALL miles are easy. 

Once I’m up to 40 mpw for a couple of weeks I’m going to stay at that mileage until 2 weeks before my half (except for my cutback weeks some cutback weeks might only be a very small cut back in miles and really just all easy running).  There will still only be 3 long runs a month with 1 being at each of the following distances, 11, 13, and 15 miles.  I will also have 1 middle distance run which will be between 7-9 miles and will be slightly faster than my long run.  I’ll have a speed work day where I do different intervals each week and will do 5-7 miles (those miles will include my warm up and cool down miles because I usually run the 1.8 miles to and from a nearby track).  Then I’m going to have one day where I do hill work.  Maybe just run a hilly route or do hill repeats.  My other two runs will be easy runs and will divide up my remaining mileage to get me to 40 mpw.  Some weeks I’ll do some hill sprints during one of my easy runs and change my “hill work” run to a threshold run. 

I just finished reading “Run Faster: From the 5k to Marathon” by Brad Hudson and Matt Fitzgerald and I really liked it.  While I will not be following one of his plans since the 3 HM plans just aren’t perfect fits I like a lot of his workouts.  There was so much good information in there about how to make a schedule and what type of things you should be focusing on.  He also talks about having a flexible schedule because some days your body just doesn’t have a hard run in it or sometimes on an easy day your body feels fresh so why not be able to swap workouts sometimes.  Now the big question will be to see if I made a plan worthy of helping me get to my goal and if my body can handle getting me to my goal.  Before being sick I was doing my long runs at a 10:30-10:40 pace and while my pace was dropping quickly I’m not sure if I’ll be able to hit a 9:10 pace for my half in March but I sure hope so. I did my 10k in October at a 9:45 pace and it didn’t feel hard so I’m hoping it is do able.  If not I’ll found out and readjust my goal.

Oh I feel like I should also add that after the HM in March I’m keeping my miles up round 40 mpw because I have a 25k trail race in May.  May will be a busy month for me so in June I’m only running a 10k and will not have many hard workouts just mostly easy runs because July 7^th I start marathon training. 

Phillie, I didn’t realize that you haven’t run a half marathon before.

Mitch, they do have a couple of shorter races that are throughout the year.  I think it will be a good first marathon.

Jack, yay to the fun socks!!

Hi to everyone else! I’m sorry but I do not have time to do personals to everyone every day.  I will however try to do personals to different people each day. Oh, and today Hey Doc's personal counts as a personal to a couple of people or at least I think it should, lol. 

Good Morning!

 

I’m a newbie that escaped the land of the lurkers yesterday to join the fun!

 

My goal is 30 MPW by the end of the year. After that I’ll look for a plan (with your help : ) to train for my next HM in June.  All of my miles are done penguin style and I’ll hold off on any speed stuff until next year.

 

AFM: This week my goal is 22 MPW running 5 days a week. I ran 5 miles yesterday and will run another 5 today.

 

Have a wonderful day everybody!

 

Brenda

Hi Brenda    !!!!!