Motivated

Although that recent 10-mile race was horrendous, it has been a phenomenal help to get motivated.

I am running a trail half-marathon race on 17th November and I’ve been able to keep up a decent amount of yoga, running and weight training over the last few weeks since the race.

As it’s a trail half I won’t be getting a distance PB, I just want to be able to run the race without feeling like I haven’t trained enough; the pervasive thought when I was running the 10 miler.

My training the last 2 weeks has looked like this:

14 to 20th:

3 x Bikram classes

1 x Vinyasa class

6.44Km run

7Km run

30 minute XT walk.

21st to 27th:

Leg and glute weights
back and arm weights
2 x Bikram classes
1 x Vinyasa class
12Km run
30 minute XT walk

Then this week I have managed the following:

28th = 60 minute Bikram

29th = 8Km morning run (50:21)

30th = Rest

31st = Vinyasa 60 and Bikram 60

1st = 5Km run (29.36)

2nd = full body functional training workout

Tomorrow I am due to do a 10 mile training run and I’m interested to see how this compares with the race a few weeks ago.

Having done some decent and consistent training for a few weeks I am feeling good about where I am with my fitness and with another 2 weeks to go before the half-marathon I feel like it should go well.

I have quite a bit on at work the next few weeks so it’s all about planning and making priority of training where possible.