Off to the Races!

Well, my first week of training for the Madison Half Marathon on May 27th is officially over.

I spent the month of January riding the stationary bike as planned, and I logged 71 miles with a total of 4:50 on the bike trying to get my legs ready to start running.

I'm following a training plan that my sister told me about from Runner's World online. I started on Monday, 2/5 and the plan only called for three 2-mile runs the first week. I came close and ran a total of 5 miles, but I was much slower than I should have been. I've got a lot of work to do before I "catch up" to the training plan, but I'm sure I'll get there eventually.

On my "off" days I rode the bike, putting on another 20 miles, and I took Saturday off.

This week's plan is the same as last week's except that I'm supposed to run 3 miles on Sunday. I'm going to focus on meeting the mileage goals this week although I am certain I won't meet the time goals. That's fairly consistent with my race plan anyway since I am focused on running the miles in whatever time it takes to finish.