OK. So I am changing gears yet again for my spring training. I have taken your advice and decided to focus on shorter distance races during the spring. I am actually really excited about it because I have never trained for any of the middle distances - only the 1 mile and the marathon. I will start training tomorrow. Thanks to everyone who sent me schedule advice!I will run my first "benchmark" 5K on January 19 to see where I am at. I am pretty out of shape now and this course is relatively hard (2 big hills), but it will be a good starting point.
Then, my target races will be:
Valentine's Run 5K (2/9)
Shamrock Shuffle 10K (3/15)
Mad City 100K Relay - 20K leg (4/12)
Crazylegs Classic 5 mile (4/26)
Lake Monona 20K (5/3)
Madison Half Marathon (5/25)
Race for the Cure 5K (5/31)
This sounds like a lot of fun to me! I usually do not have time for a lot of the local races because I am in heavy marathon training. And the ones I do run, I am usually completely exhausted from training. It will be interesting to try to run a 10K, 20K and half on relatively fresh legs. Hopefully I can get some high quality work in and earn some big fat new PRs in 2008.
We have been hit with a heat wave (upper 40s) and the snow is beginning to melt! Yay! It has been killing my hips to run on the packed snow, ice and slush. It is not supposed to freeze again until Tuesday, so I should have a couple of days of good runs. I'll take it while I can!! My mileage this week was a whopping 30.2 miles. All done at an insanely slow pace with relatively high HR. I have a head/chest cold that has knocked me pretty hard this week.
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We should meet up at Shamrock! I'm running that one too (it's an 8k, by the way...I wouldn't want you to save your kick). Try to get yourself a seeded start. There's something like 25-30k runners.
These temps have been pretty crazy lately. Good luck getting healthy!
Sounds like a fun schedule! Watch out for the ice. It melted all weekend up here in MN and this morning it was about 31 when I went out. I fell twice, but that was nothing compared to the guy I had to call 911 for. He'd slipped, fallen, & broken his ankle on the lake path.
Run safe!
Hubitron, I am talking about the Shamrock Shuffle in Madison, not Chicago. Although that may not be a bad idea. ... I'll let you know what comes from that.
kotzebue - crazy! I'm glad you're ok, sorry to hear about the other guy. It has been very warm here (50 today) and most of the snow has given way to green grass, which is equally crazy to me. It looks like we are due for another cold snap tomorrow night though and more snow . . . .
Oops...I should have known, since the date was different too...not too observant of me. Sorry about that! I just figured it might be a race you'd travel the two hours to. It is pretty fun, but it's a madhouse.
Mindi,
Take this with a grain of salt, but that's an awful lot of racing over a long period of time. If you're gunning for the shorter distances, the kind of training you do for that is quite different than for the 20k.
IMHO, if you're looking to PR at the shorter distances, do things that will help you focus on speed and VO2 max work. And race less...
All right, I'm stepping off my soapbox now--one that is by no means an expert soapbox.
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