Week 4 started

Tuesday, 28 January 2025

OK So you know how I made a little plan for the week earlier today and said that’s what I was gonna do well I am not gonna do that because I’m panicking about this half marathon and I was deep diving this girl from my secondary school who I think is a proper athlete now and does like 18km runs on the regular and is super fast and my half marathon is in 2 WEEKS AND 5 DAYS WHAT WAS I THINKING????? That is basically 3 weeks though which feels a lot less crazy. Anyway I’m going to have to get SERIOUS with this because now my cousin is implicated in my dumbness. Yes I think I could just run a half marathon if I really wanted to anyway but I need to feel like it’s not just going off adrenaline and I actually want to have some level of fitness. New PLAN AS FOLLOWS

• Tuesday (today) - 30 mins easy and a bit of gym (I completed this and had a great time. Treadmill running is simultaneously soooo slow but goes so fast because the zoning out is crazy)
• Wednesday (tomorrow) - tempo run for SPEED (2 mins in 2 mins out). Maybe some swimming I’m not sure now.
• Thursday (on Thursday) - this is the most convenient day to do a long run. But everyone knows long runs are for the weekend. DAMN YOU MEDIUM DISTANCE RELATIONSHIP (this doesn’t mean I don’t want to see you it means I don’t want to waste time running when you’re here)!!! So maybe I’ll do it then because I think I’ll die if I do it on Friday or Saturday. I’m still keeping Sunday open in case but I don’t want to spend that day running 20km. Because I’ll probably 20kms. That feels exciting tho. And I’m going to total ninja in the evening so maybe it’ll shake out the wobblies.
• Friday - active rest day or 15 mins recovery run (read: walk to uni or rehearsal… maybe) (If I didn’t do the long run then it’s another speed run. Maybe that’ll motivate me to actually do this on Thursday xo)
• Saturday - rest day
• Sunday - teeny run or LONGRUN or active rest <3

Have I made this up slightly? Perhaps. But I’ve mixed stuff from the Nike Run Club 1/2 training plan (in their last 2 weeks) and what I was already planning on doing, and I feel fine diverging slightly from the Adidas one because I will have run a 1/2 by Feb 16 which I’m not sure I would have done already. Actually I should probably check that one sec

Ok it basically lines up perfectly with the training plan so I don’t know what to do now. Because it feels wrong to not feel like I’m specifically training for this race. So maybe I’ll do the 20k for confidence then go back to the marathon plan as it tapers back up from there. I’m going to stay aware of my body and potential injuries though as I’m aware this is a big jump from 13k. And if I can’t do it then I can just go back to doing the OG marathon plan and not feel bad. Problem solved!