The Training Plan

So I was in Munich a couple of weeks ago to visit an old school friend and I made it my goal to make it "the final blow-out". I think I can safely say that was achieved.

I figured in order for me to take this thing seriously I would cut out alcohol completely from the time I got back and so far (in 1 week) I am doing ok. I am known as a bit of a drinker so this in itself is going to be a tough challenge as well but I figured it will help me lose weight quicker. I need to lose weight in order to decrease the pressure on my joints when I'm running and hopefully that will come with time.

So last week I was back and not drinking and I started designing a training plan. I found an online article called "Tackling the big one" by some magazine or site called ultra fit, and so I have designed a training programme from that. I ran 5.5 miles in total last week and swam another 1.5 miles so that gave me an idea of where to begin. From that, I have designed the following:

I did some light swimming yesterday - which is not in the training plan but I wanted to get some pointers on my technique to make my swimming more effective, that was done and so into the plan we go!

The 2 mile run today was fairly good. It felt easy for the first 1.5 miles or so. Let's see how I feel towards the end of the week. The training programme does extend to Sept/October for a full marathon so my aim is to get there ASAP then keeping it up until next year. This way I can compensate for injury/holidays etc.

Feel free to give me some advice on the programme, I'm hoping it's going to work out.

All the best,

Erik