Alex's Blog

Intro

I got into running to loose weight sometime around 2010-2011 and I kept this habit since. I've been running for a decade I've managed to run 4 marathons:

• 2014-05 Scotia Toronto
• 2016-05 Scotia Toronto
• 2017-05 Scotia Toronto
• 2017-08 Reykjavik Marathon

I also been running Around the bay Race in Hamilton, Ontario from 2013, only skipping a single event in 2018 because I got sick just in the time where I needed to catch up on my training.

Since running my last marathon in August 2017 I promptly gained 10 kg, which I have kept since, which makes running a full marathon really difficult.

New Year's resolution

Before the holidays I thought of not doing new year's resolution, but since then I had a time to think, and a few doable things, such as many people from my running group are going to do ATB and then a marathon in may, I decided that organizing my time around these two events would not be particularly difficult.

For the year of 2020 I'll do my Around the Bay race and then I will use it as a springboard to run Mississauga marathon a month later.

One of my friends from the running group have mentioned that he just going to do a training schedule in google calendar, and I thought to myself that I should do that too -- years before I just ran with other people who had made their running calendar, but I never made my own.

Running calendar

This is the calendar I made for my schedule, based on Marathon training schedule -- Metric version I have 18 weeks until full marathon (Sunday, May 3rd) and 12 weeks until Around the Bay race (Sunday, March 29).

I'm planning to run 3 times a week, and it is easier for me to run on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. I will run on mornings Fridays to work, so I will not be able to vary distance for that exercise. For Wednesdays I set run distance to 10Km, but I may updated it and veary it between 8-13Km.

Here's my marathon training plan for Jan 1, 2020 - May 3, 2020.