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Ok, what's the plan? I submitted my team application for this year and it was great because it made me outline my training goals and think ahead to Norway. Here they are:
- Goals for training hours per month are: Jan = 30, Feb=26, March = 30, April = 28, May = 36, June=36, July = 34. August will be focused on WOC competition, no specific hour goal and fall again will be allowed to be more of a recovery season. But year goal will be to have over 300h of training.
- Running training goal is at least 100 mi/month with one running race per month.
- I want to do 2-3 5k time trials to test my running fitness. I hope to be running close to a 18 min flat 5k by July.
- Strength: I want to keep up approximately 2 Pilates sessions per week throughout my year. This really matters for me.
- Drills: doing aerobics on Fridays while in Portland will help me get some plyometric exercises in, which sound like they will be helpful for Norway. I also want to incorporate at least one other drill session in per week, starting in April.
- Hills: starting in April, I want to have 3 out of every 4 weeks have a hills-focused training session as it sounds that will be very helpful for Norway.
- Orienteering: starting with spring break, I want to do at least one technical or one armchair study session per week. When classes end, this will up to two. As July begins, this will up to three.
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So that's the global plan. This week important things are 1) healing the hamstring niggle and 2) running a half marathon on Sat. Already got in Pilates, will skip aerobics because it's the day before the half. Next week's training will be a challenge because I'll be at the big astronomy conference with 8am-8pm days. Still, there are awake hours before 8am, so it's gotta be about using those.
Today: ~6mi easy run, paying attn to hammie
Fri: ~4 mi easy run, 10 min core
Sat: Half marathon
Sun: Easy orienteering Sun afternoon in Seattle??
Mon: ~4 mi treadmill or run, 20 min Pilates-like core
Tues: running tempo
Wed: ~8 mi morning run
Thurs: ~5 mi run, with some speeds (if hammie ok), 20 min core