I'm not going to lie, my training has been a bit haphazard since the Norwich half.
I spent some time working on my training plan up until the great bentley half marathon in February. The plan is to work on speed together with increasing overall fitness with some time on the rowing machine. And of course plenty of strength work.
Strength work is crucial. I feel soggy. I've noticeably lost muscle tone- down to eating as well as haphazard training.
Today, I feel doubly soggy, and in fact sweated through my pjs in the night due to this nasty flu. Luckily, it does seem like I've had the worst of the symptoms. Still, it did floor me, so unfortunately, the first few days of my training plan are not going to contain ticks and smiley faces!
Hopefully 2016 will be a less soggy year, both in muscle tone, and in pyjamas! 😷
For anyone interested in what my training week was going to look like:
Monday : core
Tuesday: 6 mile easy, and strength work for legs, chest and arms
Wednesday: 20 min row in morning. 3x300m @10k pace in evening
Thursday: 6 miles steady and strength work for posterior chain and core
Friday: 12 miles easy
Saturday: parkrun
Sunday: rest
Slightly unorthodox weekend as I'm hosting a running technique workshop on Saturday and a Marathon preparation seminar on Sunday.
Who's started their marathon training already? Hopefully you've had a better start than me...
