So this challenge will be a little different from the others, in that I’m not just going to do it for 90 days. This is going to be almost 9 months long… (!!)
I’m going to do the City 2 Surf Perth Marathon at the end of August. I don’t know if it’s the 24th or the 31st of August next year.
The challenge is to run every day from now until the marathon.
My framework of weekly mileage is:
- December – 40 km per week
- January – 50 km per week
- February – 60 km per week
- March – 70 km per week
- April – 80 km per week
- May – 90 km per week
- June & July – 100 km per week
- August – sharpen, taper and marathon
The details of the program I’ll sort out later, but December and January are going to just be about running a consistent distance every day.
It works out at about 6km per day in December and 7km per day in January.
I’ve not done a great deal of running for quite some time. I’m in reasonable shape (ran a non-stop 10km in 1:08 two days ago), but nothing spectacular. The most important thing for me is to get back into the daily running habit I established last year with the Run Challenge.
I’ve run one marathon, in 6:09:32 (not a good time at all). I’m targeting a sub-4 hour marathon, but secretly hoping to get around 3:30 with all the work I’m going to put in between now and August. My fastest Half Marathon is 2:06:29, so I’ve got a lot of work to do!
Between now and the marathon, I’ll run around 3,000km, which will likely be about 300 hours of running (which equates to 12.5 days non-stop in case you wondered lol).
I’ll probably post here regularly at the start and then a little infrequently as it becomes same old.
The best way to follow along (if you’d like to) is at http://www.dailymile.com/people/MikeHaydon – I track all my runs there and go into more detail than I probably will here.
… Deep breath… here we go!