Brighton Half Marathon Blogg Update.......Wind Down......

Less than 2 Weeks To Go……….

OMG…… I cannot believe I have less than 2 weeks left until the Brighton half marathon. I was planning on doing the Watford half marathon as a training run but I had been advised not to, so I decided to skip it.

Lucky I did, because it was snowing!! I thought it would be a good training run but if I was to be honest with myself I do not think I would have been able to not race it. This is why I was advised not to do it but to save myself for the actual race.

I am looking forward to the Brighton half and want to achieve a personal best. I hope the nerves and adrenaline will help me through on race day.

I do feel my training is going well. I have managed to do most of my runs outside which is good but due to the snow I am going to have to do some training this week on the treadmill.

Some of my training sessions in the gym have involved:

Circuit

1 mile run on the treadmill @ speed 14.5 and completed in 6:45 minutes

Squat to row x 20

Chest press x 20

Leg extension x 20

Bike 3 minutes

and repeated the circuit again

Weights session included:

Squat 2 row 3/12

Push up 3/12

Hamstring curls 3/12

One legged squat 3/12

Leg extension 3/12

Leg press 3/12

6km run on the treadmill

Last week I did 2 hours on the treadmill which was extremely boring but I did it at a low speed as I just wanted to spend that amount of time on my feet. It’s important that your body is use to being on your feet for a constant 2 hours without a break.

I have been getting some advise by an experienced athletic coach, Lynda Palmer back in South Africa and she has advised me that as this should be my last week of hard training .

On Saturday I am going to do 5 miles followed by rest days on Sunday and Monday. On Tuesday I will do a 10 minute run and a few strides followed by another 10 minutes. On Wednesday I will rest and then on Thursday I will do the same workout as Tuesday. Then I will rest and hopefully be ready for race day on Sunday 19th February.