The SLC Half Marathon is on April 19th. On the Ragnar training schedule, we are supposed to run 12 miles on this date anyway. Why not run an extra mile and get a T-shirt and medal for it? I'm planning on signing up for it. Is anybody else interested? Cost right now is $55.
This will be a good motivator for me to kick it up another notch or two as I played basketball in the morning 3 times this week(NCAA tourney gave me the itch) instead of running. I only ran the 7-miles on Tuesday but do plan on running the 12 tomorrow. I noticed that there is a "clydesdale" category as well for guys over 200 lbs. if that's any extra motivation to run it.
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I think this is the one that craig and his wife are doing. Am I right?
Yep...this is the one we are doing. Come run with us! (well, run at the same time as us... you will probably be 2-3 miles in front of me)
Craig, this will be cool. I'll definitely come run with you guys. i think there are a couple of people in my ward who are planning on running it as well. Let's plan on it.
Craig, How does the training for the half marathon differ from the Relay? Will you send me the training program you're on? I'm curious to see what the difference is and how I need to train for the next 3 weeks.
I ran the 12 miles yesterday and it was aweful!!! I ran from my house in Draper to my office in Sandy. So I ran north the whole time and the freezing North Wind was blowing the whole time.. I had the chills all day yesterday after that.
Hey Kip, sorry for the slow response... the training is pretty similar, just typically in a different order.
This is the training program leading up to the half:
Monday: easy 45-60 min (easy pace--or a pace where you can maintain a conversation)
Tuesday: hard--30-40 min (definitely unable to converse)
Wednesday: Cross training 30-40 min
Thursday: Moderately hard 60 min (close to race pace)
Friday: day off
Saturday: The distance run... we have been increasing the distance by about 2 miles a week.
I'd log around 10 miles this week, and possibly taper off the week before the training.
What I've found is that in some weird way, this training really does a great job to prepare you for the distance run...It's a science.
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