My meals today were sort of a disaster, and my pictures (which I tried to take with a cell phone camera) were even worse. Better luck tomorrow?
Instead, I’m finally going to share my training plan with you guys. I’m basically following the beginner’s half marathon plan I found in SHAPE –
The plan has three days running (one long run), two days cross-training, and two days off. I’m also going to try to incorporate stretching and strength training. It’s not on the schedule, but I have an unlimited one month hot yoga pass I need to cash in, so expect to see lots of that in June. If you have training experiences and you have any suggestions about this plan, please let me know what you think!!!
I’m not positive I’ll actually be able to commit to this race (see this post), but for now it feels great to cross off the days!
I haven’t crossed today off yet, but I did get in my three miles. The rain forced me inside all afternoon so I headed to the treadmill. 3 miles in 28:15.
And now, of course, I’m having knee pain. See why I qualified that goal? With any luck I’ll feel better tomorrow, but if not I can do my cross-training with an easy walk while I study for tomorrow’s two exams. See you then!
Eating Chalk 
Oh no! Hope the knee pain goes away.
Did you say high_knee pain?
Hahaha
Bummer on the knee pain 😦 I hope it’s better today!!
Good luck with the training plan!!
Hey Emily! As someone who’s quite similar to you (knee pain, doesn’t run a huge amount, has only done one half before) here’s my advice…
*ICE those knees after every run. As your runs get longer, consider taking ice baths.
*I’d bump up your longest run – maybe to 11.5 miles.
*If you do the yoga (you should!) take it easy with the poses – I have actually injured myself in yoga. Idiot.
*Eat! Nom nom.
Drat, I was hoping no one would say ice! 😉 We don’t have a tub though, so ice baths are out of the question. I’ll have to figure out how to get set up for icing. Thanks for your advice!
Don’t worry about the baths if you don’t have a tub! Just ice after every single run – a bag of peas will work nicely if you don’t want to buy proper ice packs/brick.
Thank you so much for all your advice!
Second on the ice baths. Wear a sweatshirt on top and hold a steaming mug of tea/cocoa and get in for 15 mins or until your body heat brings it to room temp. It is worth it after longer runs. I took a month off due to our non-existent Spring and a minor injury and ended up gaining 11 lbs (!!!!) — now running seems sooooo much harder. Blah. The funny thing is… I started eating a ton of food when I was out running multi-9-10-milers and my body adjusted to taking in a huge amount of calories. (2500 a day, no joke). SO even though I eat healthy foods, I just eat way, way too much of it. And my body still feels like it needs all that food, despite the weight gain! Yugh how to escape this? It’s a self-perpetuating problem. With the weight gain, exercise feels ickier, and I feel hot and bloated and unsexy and don’t want to go to the gym and running hurts. So I eat more. 🙂 Wow, this has turned into quite the tirade! Anyway, keep on with the training and I will do my best too. Your blog is great!
Oops – forgot to mention that I am supposed to be running the B-lo 1/2 on the 29th.
I hope I can pull it off!
Aww, good luck! That sounds really frustrating! Are you local?