Day number 1

Well, that’s a bit of a relief. I’d been looking forward to this day with not a little dread, I must say.

What am I talking about? Oh, sorry about that, today is Day 1 of my Marathon training program.

Strangely enough - it starts with a “rest day”. That’s my sort of training. I’m well equiped to handle a rest day. I’ll just arse about here at work, go home have dinner and slob about in my tracky-dacks for the night.

Last night was a super-rest night. I had a nap from about 7:30 to 9 - the other half likes the tennis, which puts me to sleep at the best of times. I woke up for about 10 minutes to drag my sorry behind into bed and then slept from 9:15 right through to 6:30. It’s almost unheard of. I put it down to the unfamiliar sensations of rain on the roof and lying under the doona. Admittedly, yesterday was a fairly exhausting day - up at the crack of dawn to get out on the road. 26k later, I was at home ready to “start the day”, terrific.

This week’s training is relatively restful altogether. 60k, with 2 rest days and a couple of runs marked down as “easy”. This week might come under the category of “lulling into a false sense of security”. Looking a few pages into the program, I’ll be doing 100k weeks with strides, tempo, fartlek, hills, fartlek over hills and god-knows what else.

I’ve tried to get a bit organised. I now have a spreadsheet, which logs all my training for 2006. I’ll attempt to figure out a way to include it on this page, soonish.