I need to figure out some way to manage my weekends. I'm doing Hal Higdon's Intermediate I Training Plan, which calls for weekday runs on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and then weekend runs on both Saturday and Sunday. I'm usually pretty wiped out by Friday after all the early morning runs during the week, so a low-key Friday night is never difficult. My big problem is that I always want to have a big night out on Saturday night, and inevitably end up staying out late and drinking too much before I have to wake up on Sunday to do my long run (which is probably the most important run of the week). Last weekend I couldn't get out of bed on Sunday morning to run, and was forced to do my 9-miler after a day spent on the beach. Needless to say, I was super dehydrated and the run was miserable. This Sunday, I was so hungover from all the it-seems-like-a-great-idea-at-the-time tequila shots on Saturday night that I ended up doing my long run this morning (on Monday). With the mileage jumping to 11 miles this coming Sunday, I cannot let this happen anymore. I am either going to have to go down a level to Hal's Beginner II marathon training plan, which is the same as the Intermediate I minus the double weekend run, or get serious and stop drinking on Saturday nights. To be honest, I'm not sure what my decision will be. It might be a weekly decision - it can't hurt to use the beginner schedule as a base and do an extra day of running if it's a quiet weekend.
That being said, being ambitious about my willpower to avoid the bottle next Saturday night, here's the week's training plan:
Monday: Spin
Tuesday: 3 miles
Wednesday: 6 miles
Thursday: 3 miles
Friday: Rest
Saturday: 6 miles at marathon pace
Sunday: 11 miles
Total: 29 miles
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