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A new training program.
As from next Monday I'm in training.
The second Sunday in December is the Narón half marathon. It's also the Galician half marathon championships. I ran there last year in a time of 1hour 39.
As half of my customers will be running there I want to put in a good time this year (at the moment most of my customers are sub 3 hour marathoners).
I have drawn up a training plan for the next three months which I hope will see me finish between 1hour 20 and 1hour 25. I will post the plan in the next few days, but the first month is back to base training. The second month will be stamina work, lots of hills and stuff, then focussing on speedwork for the third month. Hopefully peaking perfectly for the half.
Between the start of this training and Nar'on there is one important race, at the end of October is the Camino de Santiago race, the biggest in Galicia with about 9000 runners. It's 12,5km.
That's the objective for this year. Next year it may be London, I've sent off the application, let's see if I have luck in the draw.
Yesterday I ran a half marathon in Ponferrada. The obervent may recall that the Toral de los Vados marathon passed through Ponferrada. The weather was awfull on the way there, we were caught in thunder storms for most of the journey, but luckily the weather held for most of the race. Actually, I didn't set out to race there, and only ever looked at the watch twice, once on each lap. The course ended up being a bit hilly (I'm sooo glad I done that training for Baiona).
In the end I finished in 1h 32' 40" in the middle of a thunder storm. Given that it was pissing down and I was freezing I didn't hang around to see where I finished (it's worrying that I'm now interested in these things). It was back to Simon's place for a shower - Simon being the Brit who I met in Toral, he ran the 10k yeaterday, which ended up being 11.2km
Next Saturday is a 10.4km race on Saturday then a 4.6km on Sunday. Both are close to La Coruña so will be opportunitis to hand out publicity.
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