MId week, 2008 training plans, 5K-10K training, t-shirts

The mid week workouts are posted Make sure if you are running on the track to remember that others are using it as well. If you not running on it stay to the outside.

A lot of you will be running marathons or halfs in the next month so it’s time to think about races you might want to race train for next winter or spring. I’ve posted training plans for many (Marathons), there are a few more that I’ll finish up with the week. I’ll hopefully get the half marathon plans up this week.

It’s always a good idea to start making plans for your next events after your big race. This will allow you to plan for your recovery and enable you to get back into training safely while limiting the risk of injury. After building for your big races over the summer you have built a nice base for yourself. Now that you have done this building strength for you upcoming race this would be a great time to train for some shorter races, 5K and 10K’s. Doing this through the first of the year will let you work on your speed and when you start your build up for another longer race next year you will be that much faster for 5 and 10K’ which will make you faster for your longer races. The nice thing about training for the shorter races is that the emphasis is on speed and not so much on endurance which means that it’s not as time consuming. Meaning all of you runs are a tad faster and longer runs are shorter which means less time running. I always sort of thought of it as a vacation of sorts since I wasn’t spending as much time on the road. Certainly a nice break physically and mentally. If you are interested in exploring this type of training let me know and I can cook up a post marathon/half plan built on working on you speed.

Speaking of 5K and 10K many of you have taken advantage of the fall racing schedule which has many of the larger races of over that distance most gaining PR’s. Great job!!

I’ll be ordering long sleeve t-shirts this week from New Balance. So those of you newer members who haven’t gotten one will get one in a few weeks (as well as everyone else). I checking into which colors are available. They did mention that they had some new colors coming in November but I’m not sure I want to wait that long. I’ll keep you posted.