Training Plan - November Half Marathon

First off, I would like to state that Day 1 of the Corporate Challenge kicked me in the ass. Not because I couldn't complete my run, but because I was caught in a monsoon (rain whipping my face, blowing sideways, the whole nine yards) and was 2 miles away from home. And was wearing a hanes white t-shirt. And running shorts. And a yellow sports bra. And had to stop back at the gym to grab my keys and water bottle out of the locker room. I literally wrung out my shirt before entering the gym, and then continued to sprint home to minimize my appearance as a wet tshirt contest entrant. And then threw my 1.99 hanes tee into the garbage can before even entering my house. Not even worth trying to salvage.

Moving on to the training plan....I had high hopes of having a fancy excel sheet set up, but sorry, no time for that, you're getting links. As of today I have 16 weeks to train for the half, which is the same length of time that I trained for the full last year (oh how the mighty have fallen). I'll be taking the first six weeks of an intermediate training plan to try and get myself back into shape, and then I'm going to segway into a 10 week advanced training plan (I will break 2:00 hours this time around. Or puke three times instead. Either/or).

A disclaimer: I am going to be adjusting these schedules as I see fit, but this is the general overview. For example, no way in hell I am going to a) find a grassy area to run in, or b) run hard five days a week. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it. I will also let you know the conversion for meters to miles, because I have already spent far too much time doing that and wouldn't want any other victims of the American school system to suffer the same math related trauma.

First six weeks here: http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/racing/rws-10-week-150-plus-half-marathon-schedules/99.html

Next 10 weeks here: http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/racing/rws-10-week-sub-150-half-marathon-schedules/97.html

This week (so far): Monday: 3 miles, Tuesday: 4 miles. Yep, already flip flopped those days. That's how its going to be.