kristian

As I might have mentioned, I’m now officially signed up for the Athens Classic Marathon in November. This THE marathon that starts from the coastal town of Marathon and ends in Athens.

Today is also the last day of my holidays which means I can finally go back into a good running routine which has been rather too hard to achieve during the holidays. I still haven’t had a change to upload my actual training I did for the Edinburgh marathon and that’ll have to wait for now. Instead, I’ll briefly describe what I’m thinking for Athens training.

Because of my un-routined work life, I’m going to try to simplify the programme so it’s not so day specific – more like, this is what I need to achieve during each week.

1. Fast paced 12-14k at about 5:00-5:10 min/km
2. Intervals. 3-4 times 1-2k at 4:00-5:00 min/km. Plus some squat-and-cry’s in the end.
3. Long run every 2/3 weekends. And with ‘long’ I mean 20+ km. These should be at 6:05 min/km or faster.
4. Slow recovering run.

I won’t be able to do all of these every week, that I know already, but as long as I aim to run three times a week and do two long runs for every three weeks and interval training every week, I’ll be much better of than last time.

–kristian