The Plan

I figured I should get my training plans posted before September is gone – and yikes! that’s today … although I feel pretty crappy (picked up some kind of cold:  nauseous, dizzy – vertigo, stuffed up, and the like) and don’t want to do much.  Although I was on my treadmill this morning as scheduled!

Anyway … I’m starting with 2 minutes walking/2 minutes running increasing by 10 minutes each week with every 4^th week being a step back (total amount of time per day) week.  Currently all this is taking place on my treadmill – with increases for speed occurring on the same week as the step back in total time.  My goal is to work up to 180 minutes before starting on a 16 week mileage plan as listed in “The Non-Runner’s Marathon Trainer”.  Most of this happens 3 days per week, with a 4^th day designated for outside walks (for the now, runs later) starting with one mile and eventually increasing into my long run days.

I am also cycling a couple of days per week and doing a little bit of weight training a couple days per week – low weights (pounds), higher reps.  Both of these are of course in the “building” (minutes cycled; weight and reps, etc.) process.  Does any of this make sense to anybody but me?  It looks great on my Excel grid, harder to translate into words.

So far, the most important thing I’ve started up again in my training has been my Bible reading plan – I don’t think I could even contemplate this type of an undertaking without that – it keeps me steady and tells me who I really am regardless of what anyone else says.  But I got to tell you this whole training business is hard.  Way worse than when I started training a few years ago.  My word of advice – if you’ve got some type of training plan started (food, exercise, Bible, prayer, whatever) keep it going; it’s much harder to start over.

“Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win! All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize. So I run with purpose in every step. I am not just shadowboxing. I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to others I myself might be disqualified.”    1 Corinthians 9:24-27 NLT

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