Talk and Walk

I walked 1.8 miles today on the treadmill. I had two phone conferences (aka meetings) and I walked all the way through one and partway through another. Two hundred calories gone.

I've decided to do a 10-week training program for the half marathon. My half is 11 weeks away, so I'm going to do the Week 1 stuff twice. You figure out your goal time and then run three days a week. One day is repeats (400, 800 or 1600), with goal times based on your goal for the half. One day is a tempo run, at goal pace minus 15 seconds. And one day is a long run, at goal pace plus 30 seconds.

My goal is 2:24. That would be a PR. When I ran VCM in 2001, my time at the half was something like 2:29 or 2:30...and that was with 13.1 miles to go. I think 2:24 is a fairly lofty goal, but we'll see how the training goes, and which half of VCM I wind up running (the second half has Battery Hill at mile 15, which I still remember 7 years later....so I'm sort of angling for the first half).

So....tomorrow it's 4x400 on the treadmill, with a goal of 2:45 for each 400. That seems very doable, but that could be because I haven't done it yet.....