Building up for a Half Marathon: Week 8

Building up for a Half Marathon: Week 8

Building up for a Half Marathon: Week 8 It’s the final week before race prep! The focus of this workout is to complete a series of 800m cruise intervals at half marathon goal pace to prep the body for racing. WU 15-20 minutes include 4-5 x 100m fast stride-outs 10 x...
Building up for a Half Marathon: Week 7

Building up for a Half Marathon: Week 7

Building up for a Half Marathon: Week 7 This week we are planning to step up to the challenge with the “Power Hour Challenge.” This workout is perfect for determining your overall threshold and you can use it to predict your overall goal half marathon race pace in a...
Building up for a Half Marathon: Week 7

Building Up for a Half Marathon Week 6

Building up for a Half Marathon: Week 6 This week we are focusing a little bit less on the speed of the mile repeats and more on completing them with a short recovery interval. We are slowly adapting our workouts to elongate our threshold pace and therefore upping our...
Building up for a Half Marathon: Week 8

Building up for a Half Marathon Week 5

Building up for a Half Marathon: Week 5 Week 5’s has us completing a threshold session with some cruise intervals while adding some speed opener intervals at the end. WU: 10-20 min progressive build pace 2 x 5k at Half Marathon to 10k Race pace. 5-10 min recovery...
Building up for a Half Marathon: Week 7

Building up for a Half Marathon Week 4

Building up for a Half Marathon: Week 4 Week 4’s running focus is all about speed with some mile repeats faster than race pace to get in some hard intervals. Warm up: 2 miles easy run. Main set: Run 6 x 1 mile dropping 5-15 seconds off each rep, start first mile @ 10k...
Building up for a Half Marathon: Week 7

Building up for a Half Marathon Week 3

Building up for a Half Marathon: Week 3 Week 3 has us bringing in some sustained tempo efforts to work on decreasing overall threshold running pace and increase your ability to hold a faster pace for a longer period of time for your half marathon. Warm up 15 -30...