Life gets in the way...again.

So I had signed up and put a deposit down on the Furman Running program (FIRST), but have since come to realize that with me not working and Miss N's fall preschool tuition bill staring us in the face and a good friend's wedding in Colorado that I REALLY want to go to, I just can't afford it. I'm super disappointed and could have probably asked my mom for help but really its a frivolous expense at the moment.

L and I talked about it and as a trade-off I'm going to sign up for a few longer distance races including 2 that require overnight stays, but not airfare, car rentals or asking my m-i-l to take Miss N for 4+ nights. All this will still total way less (even with entry fees, overnight trips, gas, tolls etc) than just the initial deposit on FIRST.

So what does all this mean?

You guessed it, a new training plan...

Rather than get all ambitious and block out my training through the Fall and the Army 10-Miler in late October (that's right, for a moment I almost skipped us right over Summer and into Fall with this plan), I decided to put together one plan at a time with an eye on a race in each grouping of time. The idea was to try to avoid overtraining and also have more time to ramp-up for a race and with the understanding a week or two of fudged workouts does not spell total disaster.

First up, the Newport 10K. It's a local race whose starting line I can walk to and a distance that not only have I not raced, but isn't impossible to train for in 13 weeks (am coming at it from almost NO running in December & January). I've had a rough few weeks, but I'll talk about that in another post - hopefully - nothing traumatic just super-stressful.

Anyway, Newport is also a race that probably a few women from my running group will end up going to - so I'll likely have company at the start line (if not for long because so many of them are so fast, which is fine because chasing them makes me faster...).

So...Training plan, part 1 (apolgies for formatting issues). I hope you'll note I'm really trying to make this one work as I've eased up on my expectations, I'm going slow and I've built in a recovery week behind the 10K. That's also the week that non-priorty registration opens for ATM - if I don't get in it changes Fall a little so I have time to prepare without trashing an entire training session.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Feb 13		1.5 run	30-60 walk	1.5 run	30-60 walk	1.5 run	30-60 walk
Feb 20	Yoga	1.75 run	30-60 walk	1.5 run	30-60 walk	1.75 run	30-60 walk
Feb 27	Yoga	2 run	30-60 walk	1.5 run + weights	30-60 walk	2 run	30-60 walk
Mar 5	Yoga	2.25 run +weights	30-60 walk	1.5 run + weights	30-60 walk	2.25 run	30-60 walk
Mar 12	Yoga	2.5 run + weights	Elliptical	2 run + weights	30-60 walk30-60 walk	2.50 run	30-60 walk
Mar 19	Yoga	2.75 run + weights	Elliptical	2 run + weights	30-60 walk	2.75 run	30-60 walk
Mar 26	Yoga	3 run + weights	Elliptical	2 run + weights	30-60 walk	3 run	30-60 walk
Apr 2	Yoga	3 run + weights	Elliptical	2 run + weights	30-60 walk	3.5 run	30-60 walk
Apr 9	Yoga	3 run + weights	Elliptical	2 run + weights	30-60 walk	4 run	30-60 walk
Apr 16	Yoga	3 run + weights	Elliptical	2 run + weights	30-60 walk	4.5 run	30-60 walk
Apr 23	Yoga	3 run + weights	Elliptical	2 run + weights	30-60 walk	5 run	30-60 walk
Apr 30	Yoga	3 run + weights	Elliptical	2 run + weights	30-60 walk	5.5 run	30-60 walk
May 7	Yoga	3 run + weights	Elliptical 30min	Rest	Rest	Newport 10K	Rest
May 14	Yoga	2 run easy	Walk	2 run easy	Walk	3 run easy	30-60 walk