Alright, now that I’m doing two intense speed workouts every week, the schedule I’d done before isn’t going to work for me. Not that I was following it very closely anyway…

So. I have my workouts on Tuesday and Thursday. These will average 5-6 miles each with a ton of speedwork. I’m going to try to add in four miles on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, or some crosstraining, but I won’t beat myself up if I don’t get to it.

On the weekends, I’m going to do at least a half-marathon distance - total. So if I’m not racing, that’s a 13.1 mile long easy run. And I do mean easy - just going for distance and relaxation here. I’ll try to work on my form, my breath control, and just have fun. If I do a race, I’ll deduct that amount and run the rest. For example, this coming weekend I’m doing the Chuy’s 5K on Saturday morning. That leaves me with 10 miles to do on Sunday.

All of that distance - M/W/F/weekend - may be done on the bike instead. If I end up riding 16 miles at Rocky Hill Ranch or Walnut Creek, for example, I won’t feel the need to do my run. I can say this because I really don’t bike all that much these days, so it won’t happen very often. I should end up with between 23 and 37 miles per week, depending on how often I run - which is fine. I doubt I’ll do more than 30 in any given week at this point.

Today, I didn’t run in the morning. I think that I’ll get the dog and do some jogging this evening instead, if I can time it so that its still light when we get back but not too warm when we head out. Assuming that I’m not working too late, of course.

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