Just like that, week 1 of half marathon training is done 🙂 It started off pretty good and then I just needed a little more sleep than running.
What was Planned vs What Really Happened.
Monday March 28th: Stretch & Strength | IronStrength Workout (50 minutes). Let me tell you that this workout is NO JOKE! I printed it from the IronStrength book I have and kept that in front of me to stay on track.WHAT a workout! Yes, I did it near the fire for some silly reason. Hoping it gets easier as the weeks pass by.
Tuesday: 5k | Yoga. Went to yoga class at lunch time and it was great! Though my body was sore from Monday’s workout, it was just what I needed. I planned to run 5k that night but my body was just to exhausted so I went to bed early.
Wednesday: 5 x 400 @ 5 k pace | 4 x 400’s Treadmill (5k). Well, I may have missed the last 400 but I managed to figure out how to do 400’s on the treadmill. I had a little help from some running friends (figuring out my pace in km for the treadmill and what level to be at). It looked like this:
- Warm up 10 minute easy running
- 400 in 2:xx at level 9.5 (I forgot to write it down)
- 400 in 2:34 (level 10)
- 400 in 2:24 (level 11)
- 400 in 2:04 (level 12.5)
- Cool down for 10 minutes.
I had a book with me on the treadmill to keep track of my times and quickly realised that I needed one piece of paper while I did my 400’s. I made the mistake of only writing down numbers 1 through 4, therefore I totally missed the 5th round. When I finished the fourth one, I even though…I could do another one but didn’t…and did a cool down run to finish off 5k. After stretching I saw what I did wrong…man, was I mad at myself!
Thursday: 5 k + Strength| 5k + Modified IronStrength (35 minutes). My running buddy Krystol messaged me to see if I was able to run with her Thursday evening…and I WAS! Another benefit of Sai being home 🙂 We went out for an easy 5k and then spent 35 minutes doing a modified IronStrength workout. It was great to do both the run and workout with her….lots of chatting, laughs and maybe a few swear words (from me).
Friday: Rest Day! | Rest Day! Nailed it 🙂
Saturday: 5 k | Nothing. Rough day so I went to bed before 9 PM! I really needed the sleep so I was okay with missing my run.
Sunday: 8k Long Run | 8k Treadmill Run. After a rough day with the girls, meal prepping, grocery shopping, baking/cooking, I somehow manged to get in an 8k run on the treadmill. It was super slow and steady for the first 4k and then I was able to increase/decrease my speed until 7km. The last km I just kept increasing my speed until I was flat out sprinting. 58:52.
KM this week: 18
KM in this training cycle: 18
KM missed: 10 (yikes!)
Training Plan: Hal Higdon Intermediate.
I’ve been struggling with some SI joint pain over the last two weeks which is slowly getting better. I’m hoping it doesn’t get as bad as it was a few years back. Other then that, I’m moving on to week two!
How was your weekend?
Anyone training, how’s it going?
How often do your old injuries occur?
Piper's Run 
Great week of workouts!! Getting to work out together was awesome, and nice work getting a long run in last night!
It was pretty good….Thursday was my favourite day 🙂
Boo for SIJ pain–give that Glute Medius some rolling love and your lower back as well–that can help take some of the pressure off the joint.
SIJ pain is the pitts….but it’s getting better. I took your advice and did some foam rolling 🙂
Glad your week went well. Nice to have a friend to run and work out with. Johnny Miles? Hafta have a look for that one.
It’s in New Glasgow (other end of Nova Scotia). Hope you are well.
I love when you can giv’er for the last km of a run 🙂
Me too, makes me feel strong!
YAY week 1! So glad you are back to training.
ME TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s nice to finally be here again!
I found your blog while looking for the Higdon Half Novice in km instead of miles. I am using it to train for my first half, and started week 1 yesterday. 2 X5k done so far, another planned for tomorrow then a day of cross training
Way to go!
They are hard to find in km!! Hope you find it okay. Sometimes I rounded the mileage up as I like to run even numbers. You may want to cross reference it with the “miles” version to see if you want to change any numbers slightly.
I like a round number too, very happy with your version. Thanks for posting it
My weekend was good. I got a couple solid runs in. Made to yoga this morning. I am hoping my old injuries do not crop up. So far, so good. 🙂
Fingers crossed you are good to go! I’m missing yoga this week because of work 😦 Not a happy camper about that one.
Sounds like you did the best that you could last week. You did get in some solid workouts.