Fall Half and Full Training

The heat of the July and August has made training a little difficult, however I've still managed to keep up with my nightly runs home and a long run on the weekend.  While the daily hills are beneficial for physical and mental training, I know that no amount of hills done over that short 3 mile course will equal the benefit of total mileage.  However, that being said, I know that the next few weeks will be a challenge for me to change my schedule as I am ending my job and starting school full time, so I will be staying the course until the beginning of September.

The new training schedule follows the Hanson's training philosophy of more mileage with some adjustments.   I am going to be following Hal Higdon's Marathon Training guide with some adjustments.  This is by no means an ideal schedule - to be honest I had hoped that I would have had more miles put in by this point.   This seems to be my consistent issue with training, quite frankly the miles don't come as fast as the race ever does.  But it doesn't mean that I give up - so here it is for the start of September.  I doubt I will be putting in an 18 miler on the long weekend but I will definitely be doing a close to that as possible.

1	3 m + Yoga (Core +Hips)*	4m hills**	8 m run	4 m run	8 m pace	Rest	18m
2	3 m + Yoga (Core +Hips)	5 m w/sp.w***	8 m run	5 m run	8 m	Rest	18m
3	3 m + Yoga (Core +Hips)	5 m hills	5 m run	5 m run	8 m pace	Rest	13m
4	Yoga (Core +Hips)	5 m w/sp.w	8 m run	5 m run	5 m pace	Rest	20m
5	Yoga (Core +Hips)	5 m hills	5 m run	5 m run	8 m run	Rest	12m
6	Yoga (Core +Hips)	5 m w/sp.w	8 m run	5 m run	6 m pace	Rest	20m
7	Yoga (Core +Hips)	5 m hills	6 m run	5 m run	5m pace	Rest	12m
8	Yoga (Core +Hips)	5 m w/sp.w	5 m run	4 m run	5 m run	Rest	8m
9	Yoga (Core +Hips)	3 m run	2 m run	Rest	2 m run	Rest	Marathon

Future Posts - I will link to them when they are available.
*Yoga
** Hill Runs
*** Sp.w = Speed Work