Week two training complete

Two weeks done and to be honest it's felt a lot longer than that but not too surprising when I take a look at my running this year; I haven't had this kind of consistent training since last year. I was struggling a bit following last weeks plan and ended up missing Thursday's (S&C) and Friday's (6 miles easy) session as I needed all of my physical and mental energy to make sure I got in enough work hours towards the end of the week. Saturday was meant to be a rest day but I decided to do the S&C (my first strength training in well over 6 months) followed by the 6 easy miles. It went well but definitely made the 15 miles the following day a lot harder than it should have been! I felt strong throughout but finished quite tight and tightened up more once I finished which I mostly put down to running so much after the S&C (even though it was pretty easy) as my body just wasn't used to it.

I'm not going to over analyse that choice too much, I didn't injure myself and can just continue forward with my training. Usually I'm against making up for missed sessions but I'm in quite a tricky position of needing to get in a lot of training to have any chance of running the LL50. It's definitely going to be a fine balancing act pushing myself hard enough to be fit and strong enough to do the run without pushing too hard and getting injured. If I miss any significant amount of training there's little chance of me making it. Currently I'm feeling 50/50 about my chances. I'm not too worried about getting fit enough for the 50 mile distance but I'm not sure if I have enough time to get strong enough for the 10,000ft of hills (I'm just as worried about the downhills and what they will do to my quads as the uphills). I need to remember I'm training to run (and walk) strong rather than fast.

Last week I said I wanted to crank out the miles, start my S&C and improve my recovery which I managed to do all of. This week it's more of the same, continue with the miles and S&C and improve my recovery further. I'm already trialling kit and nutrition but with my shorter/faster long run this week I won't get to really do that any more this week.

This week totalled 32.7 miles, my highest weekly total since last December when I was doing the half marathons.

Next week

Originally I was going to follow the plan I found for 4 weeks before making any changes but I've made a couple of small tweaks to next weeks plan to better fit what I want to achieve and how I'm feeling.

Day	Session
Monday	Rest
Tuesday	AM 4 miles easy, PM 4 miles - 5mins easy, tempo, 5mins easy
Wednesday	15 mins easy, 5 x 5 mins 5k pace with 90-sec recoveries, 10 mins easy
Thursday	60 mins easy
Friday	S&C
Saturday	Rest
Sunday	Half marathon, faster route, about 8 minute miles