FIRST Marathon Training Program: Week 7
Week 7 - August 20th, 2007
Six weeks down, 10 to go! Before I summarize Week 7 of the plan, here’s a quote from this time last week:
“Although it’s been tough, I finally feel like I’m making headway and am looking forward to the next couple of weeks as the workouts continue to increase in difficulty.”
How wrong I was! Tuesday’s track workout and Thursday’s tempo run were fairly disastrous. I didn’t meet either goal and they left me feeling quite deflated. However, after a solid mile race on Saturday and a confidence boosting Sunday long run, I’m all fired up again for the upcoming week.
Here’s what I’ll be doing this week:
Key Run Workout #1:
10-20 minute warm up
6 x 800m (1:30 min. Recovery Interval)
10 minute cool down
Key Run Workout #2:
8 mile run:
1 mile easy
6 miles @ LT pace (Long Tempo)
1 mile easy
Key Run Workout #3:
Distance: 13 miles
Pace: PMP + (15 sec/mile)
The only thing I may change is the Sunday long run, and switch the following week’s 18 miler with this week’s 13 miles. This will allow me to race the Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon and not have to worry about making up an extra 5 miles. An 18 mile run would also be a good opportunity to try a couple of products from Hammer Nutrition I haven’t used before - Energy Surge and Liquid Endurance.
For reference, all 16 weeks of the FIRST to the Finish Marathon Training Program can be found here.
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August 20th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
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