I've had some time to review the training program. I'll be training with CanToo at Albert Park Saturdays and Wednesdays, and guidelines are given for the training I should do individually on the other days.
Saturday Sessions
Saturday is the long run day. Before I started training I thought this was going to be akin to the long slow distance running I had been doing on my own - keeping my heart rate within the aerobic zone - but if the first week is any indication we'll have a specific guideline each week to indicate how hard to work.
The rough theme of our Saturday sessions is building up the distance three weeks in a row and then cutting back on the fourth week. I think my mind will need the four weekly reprieve just as much as my body frankly!
Over June and early July we build from 8km up to 18k. The session on the 27th has 14k planned, I'll be doing the Run Melbourne half marathon the following day so I probably won't attend.
Things start getting tricky late July, with 20k on the 25th. Then we do 22km the first week of August and the second week (when I'll actually be in Sydney for the 14k city to surf fun run) we are supposed to do 24km.
I'll probably need to make some adjustments to the rest of the schedule for missing the 24k because the following weekend, August 16, we do the Sandy Point Half Marathon. I'll have the City To Surf and Sandy Point back to back!
After that, it gets deliciously restful for a week - 10k on August 22nd.
Just when I'm lulled into a false sense of security - WHAM - a 30k run for the last Saturday of August and 32km the week after that.
I miss the 12 September session due to being in Perth for a week - I couldn't have planned this better as it's a 16k run I'll be missing - it would have been much harder to do the 32k session alone.
Only one more big run before race day - 35km on September 19. The final two weekends before the race we taper with a 16k and then a 10k.. and we all know what comes after that!
It's pretty comforting to know when it gets to race day I'll already have done a 32 and a 35k session. I mean, I am not looking forward to actually DOING them.. but to know I have done them should really help dispell the anxiety about the big day itself. I'm reminded again, the process of training for the marathon is as much the challenge as the marathon itself. Ask me again in a few weeks, I'll probably say the same for the fundraising!
Wednesday Sessions
We do a 5k time trial next week (June 3), and again July 8, August 5, August 26, and September 23. I'll miss the last one because of my Perth trip. I don't know the specifics yet but I think we'll be using the 5k to monitor our progress and target out marathon race pace.
The other wednesdays we do various interval workouts. The week after this one is 8 x 400m runs with a slow jog recovery between each one. That is going to be as close to sprinting as I get I would say, INTENSE. At least I have a week and a half to wrap my head around it and set some personal intentions / limits.
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