Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Napa to Sonoma Half Marathon Quick Training Update
We are super pumped to be heading to wine country in CA next month for the Napa-Sonoma HM. We have been really training hard for this one, typically about 4 days a week. 2 of those are nice easy sessions, just tossing back a few beers or glasses of wine at an easy pace. 1 session is speedwork typically consisting of 2-4 x margarita repeats with short H20 breaks in between. Then we try to get at least one long training session in per week, usually on Saturdays beginning around brunch-time and often lasting into the evening. We really like to do these on the beach so the ocean breeze can help us keep cool, and have been working on pacing so we don't start too fast. You have to reign in your excitement at the beginning so you conserve enough energy to kick it to the finish. After training long like that, you need to make sure to rehydrate and refuel so you're not feeling like death afterwards. We have a couple more weeks of training, then a short taper. I think we are definitely going to be ready to rock it!!
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lol. i'm glad you are dedicating so much time to such intense training! whew those saturdays at the beach must be tough to squeeze in ;)
haha, love it! make sure you don't overdo it now!
LMAO. too funny
haha, I like your speedwork. I was about to ask, "what's a margarita mean?" then realized you were talking about ACTUAL margaritas. I think you might be on to something...
I think that will be an awesome race! I've always wanted to run that one. Mainly for the wine, but I hear it's a beautiful course as well.
sounds like your preparations are well in hand. very nice!
Your my kind of girl. I love it. Sounds like you guys are on pace to take first in your AG.
This sounds like my kind of training!
You guys are too funny and it is a shame that the four of us haven't gotten together for a long training session yet. Matt has been working really hard this past month. His training usually consists of a long slow session with a pint or so of rum, followed by 4 to 8 repeats of Bud Light cans.
Sometimes I join in the fun with a few rum and diet quick tempo runs, gotta watch the calories after all!
Awesome! I'm throwing out my current training schedule and following yours!
LOL...sounds like the perfect training plan to me.
HAHA... great job on the "training". ;)
I'll be doing that half as well but have not faired well on my training, drinking or otherwise.
Perhaps we should have a blogger meetup?
Sounds like you guys are well prepared! Cute post.
LOL, wish I could be so dedicated!
Hmmm...haven't seen that training plan yet... but if you slapped Higdon's name to the top of it, I'm sure I could be persuaded.... ;)
Haha.
yessss sounds like fun :)
ok we HAVE to meet up!! dont let me forget!
I'm jealous... I really want to run that race.
Maybe I should lighten up and train that way. You're going to have FUN.
This is great :)
Sounds like a great plan. The long run in that plan ought to be pretty easy...
Great post, very clever! Sounds much better than my half-marathon training plan. :)
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