September running schedule

This is my schedule, and I'm sticking to it!

Day 7

Tuesday’s run: rained out. But, never fear, our coach had rainy day lesson plans (yes, he used to be a PE teacher). He went into details about our training schedules, nutrition and rest days (since we had one yesterday).

I also learned that I’m an idiot. OK, I knew I was, but I just got further proof of this fact. I thought all of the energy gels were generically called “goos.” Wrong. They are called “energy gels” or just “gels.” There is a brand, GU, pronounced “goo” (which I thought was pronounced “gee-you”). So, excuse me for being an idiot. And, just ignore most of this post (but, even if I’m an idiot, I still think “Goo review” makes a better title than “Gel review”).

Besides me being an idiot, I learned that rest days are good (and help prevent injury), we’re adding speed work to our training in September, and we’ll need to start fuelling ourselves (with energy gels, sport beans or something else I don’t know of yet) during our longer runs.

August running schedule

This is my running schedule in August. Well, not exactly. I didn't get my training schedule until the end of the third week of August, so I didn't know what I was supposed to be doing before then. So, starting this week, I will follow this schedule. It seems completely doable, which must be why my coach is the coach and knows what I am capable of running. The Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday runs are with the training group; I'm on my own for the optional Monday run and highly suggested Friday or Saturday run.