Looking Forward

Now that the first 3 weeks are almost out of the way it's time to start planning how the real training should go. As mentioned earlier, each week will have 3 focus workouts and 3 recovery days. So let's look at how I'm hoping they will progress over the coming weeks.

Week    Tempo        Intervals    Long    Tot
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4       2 x 10min    5 x 800m     12      45
5       2 x 15min    4 x 1200m    14      50
6       2 x 20min    4 x 1600m    16      55
7       1 x 30min    8 x 800m     18      60
8       1 x 35min    6 x 1200m    20      60
9       1 x 40min    5 x 1600m    18      60
10      1 x 40min    10 x 800m    20      60
11      1 x 40min    6 x 1200m    18      65
12      1 x 40min    10 x 800m    20      65

Supposedly that last interval workout should be a pretty good indicator for a marathon time. One should be able to run each 800m in their target time in hr:min converted to min:sec. For example, if I want to run a 3 hour marathon I should be able to run each 800m in 3 minutes.