Its a Plan Stan!!

Evening All,

Well I have finally sat down & tried to write my training plan until London. I have now realised how bloomin soon London is! 4 months 9 days & 13 hours to be precise. Ok to you that may seem like quite far away but I remember once I hit January last year it absolutely flew by!

So the basics of my plan are this

Monday - Body Balance Class - This is Yoga & pilates combined. Very good for your core strength & flexibility. I am going to be using this class as a good stretch after my long run which will take place on a Sunday.

Tuesday - Gym - This will be an hour plus of cross training ie, Bike, cross trainer, rowing machine, treadmill - This is good for cross training so you are not just constantly pounding the streets.

Wednesday - Mid week shorter run - This initially will start off from now as about 4 miles but will probably increase as I get closer to the marathons.

Thursday - Circuits class - This is also for core strength & some speed work too if it includes sprints.

Friday - This will be a rest day - Yipeeeeee

Saturday - Another rest day Unless I want to change my long run day

Sunday - This is my LSR day - there are still arguments as to what this means.... Long slow run, Long steady run, Long sunday run....... This is basically the long run of the week and where you build up the miles so your body gets used to doing the mileage. On this sunday I am doing 8 miles, generally you only build this up 1-2 miles a week.

So there you have it this will be the basics of my week, Obviously this will change from time to time with races & other commitments etc & will be swapped around but its the base to work on! Sue will be looking my attempt at a plan over & no doubt she will tell me I have not included enough miles on my feet so it'll possibly get changed! If it does I'll keep you updated!!

Things (like life as I have said before) can get in the way & like the weekend Sundays run sort of went out the window as I had the Circuits xmas night out on Saturday....... Sunday was completely cancelled for me in all forms! But I am not going to be hard on myself as Monday I picked up straight off and did a very strong & dare I say it enjoyable 3.4 miler & tonight I did a great session in the gym including another 50 sit ups.

I'll keep ya posted :o)

Mile o meter 32.3 miles - This means that so far I have run the equivalent of from my house to Aviemore High street!