Half Marathon Training Plan

I have been seriously busy lately! The amount of work required by classes really took me by surprise, plus working at the gym + completing workouts + cooking + job searching, blogging has really been put on the back burner. Anyway I wanted to quickly update with my Half Marathon Training Plan! I'm so excited that I've stuck with it for 3 and a half weeks! Wooo! I'm really happy with the plan I came up with (it's a combination of a few novice plans I found online). I can feel myself getting stronger as a runner, my stamina is building, and I still get to keep my workouts fun by doing zumba a few times a week! Even though I'm sticking to it pretty much to the T so far, I also realize that I'm guarenteed to have a day where I need to switch things up...and I'm totally open to that! The most important thing is to get my long run in once a week, whenever that may be!

So here it is: (click to enlarge)

Isn't it pretty!? Haha. The colors make me excited to look at it. The first week was just an attempt to get myself back into exercising right after the holidays. 30 DS stands for 30 day shred, which I've basically put on hold for the time being because there is no room in my apartment! I am running 3 times a week (1 short run, 1 short run + strength, and 1 long run on Sundays). On Mondays I do my personal training strength workout which is 60-90 minutes. On Wednesday and Saturday I do some sort of cross training. I scheudled it this way so that I can hopefully always make my cross days be zumba, but sometimes I'll have to improvise -- like last Wednesday where I did a 60 minute spinning class. This plan is reasonable to me and keeps my workouts enjoyable. Since I'm only trying to FINISH the half marathon there was no reason for me to run more than 3 times a week and no need to get fancy with interval/speed training. By the end of my plan I will have run 12 miles on the long run. AHH! I can't even imagine that it this point! Hopefully all will go well until then.

I just had a delicious lunch (which unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of) of tuna salad (1 can of tuna, 1 tsp of mayo, 1 chopped pickle), one slice of whole wheat toast, some baby carrots, and a green apple. Delicious. I'm off to class and a long night of work! Happy Wednesday :)