I will stick with crazy
You've already done so well if you only started a year ago. Are you following any particular running plan? If not, you might want to look into Jeff Galloways official training plan for the Disneyland Half (see if this link
here works for you at all. His plan gets you up to mile 14 a couple weeks before the actual half and then let's you recover a little bit. I keep telling myself I'm going to follow an actual plan one of these years and be smart about it but then I keep letting work get in the way.
It's funny, I was just mapping this out yesterday.
Thanks. I do kind of a modified Galloway, it's a hybrid of his experienced runners finish in the upright and the experienced runners time improvement. I realize that might sound a bit silly to be using the experienced runners versions but it is what works best for me, the other wasn't giving me the workouts I wanted. Although I only started running a year ago I was doing other things so switching to running 3 of my workout days impacted my cardio and I wanted to ensure that stayed relatively level.
Basically I do 2 days of the time improvement version for my weekday maintenance runs (45 min-ish, which is around 4-5 miles) and then 6m or more for my long runs, just ramping myself up to whatever goal I think I need by scheduled races. I really should do some speedwork as I would like to hit a certain time goal for the half, but I really don't enjoy it so rarely rarely do it. I will get my miles up to at least 14 before then, not really worried about it, question will be if I decide to go farther than that which is what the time improvement plan calls for. For me sticking to his plans too "exactly" doesn't work as well as I'd like with my overall workout goals. For example if I look at the time improvement one, I'm basically on week 7 as I had a 15K on Sunday and an 8K the week before and did a long run of 10.5 miles the week before that. But if I backtrack and shorten the long runs, he wants me to do speedwork, and that speedwork is less time spent on cardio than I want for my long run days and the idea of running around a track or exactly figuring out the 800 meter mark on a trail is.... Bleh.
But most other plans call for 4 days of running and since I cross train 2, that just doesn't work for me either.
I kind of figure if I just keep doing what I am doing and, at a minimum get up to 14 or longer for my long run by 8/9 or 8/16 I will be fine. It's worked out pretty well so far. My guess is I'll do something like this for my long run schedule.
6/1: 6 miles (have some blister/callus issues so this could change, see a podiatrist on the 4th)
6/8: 8 miles
6/15: 10 miles
6/21: 10K race
6/29: 6 miles
7/6: 11 miles
7/13: 6 miles
7/20: 12 miles
7/26: possible 8k race, not registered yet. If we don't do it, I may do 13 this week and 6 the next.
8/3: 13 miles
8/10: 14-17 miles. 14 for sure, more will be entirely mood dependent.
8/16: possible 10K race, not registered yet
8/24: 5 miles
I will send good thoughts your way!
