the pencil runs

Smole and I finally sat down and did some serious mathematics and came out with this plan for our long runs.

Week 1 _________ 20km 10Sept
Week 2 _________ 24km 17Sept (bali)
Week 3 _________ 26km 24Sept
Week 4 _________ 28km 01Oct
Week 5 _________ 30km 08Oct
Week 6 _________ 32km 15Oct
Week 7 _________ 34km 22Oct
Week 8 _________ 36km 29Oct
Week 9 _________ 38km 05Nov (Australia)
Week 10 ________ 35km 12Nov
Week 11 ________ 30km 19Nov
Week 12 ________ 25km 26Nov
Week 13 ______ 42.2km 03Dec

In between the long runs, we'll do a mix of laps, hill repeats, and shorter distances at a moderate to fast pace. In between the short runs we'll play squash, badminton and cycle.

In between the squash, badminton and cycling, we'll have to figure out how to read, work, eat and sleep while running because we won't have time for anything else if we stick to this plan. At the tortoise pace we run, we'll be spending a quarter of our waking hours of the weekend running! We really need to train to get faster, if only to save time.

What an audacious and exciting plan. Quoting Joan (an elite runner with elite quotes) quoting Bob Dylan,

“How far you going?” Ruby asked me with a smile.
“I’m going all the way ’til the wheels fall off and burn.”

- from Bob Dylan’s Brownsville Girl

Posted on Friday, September 08, 2006 at 11:01 PM. :)