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Training for two events
I'm looking for advice from you all, because I'm pretty much a beginner runner.
Background, in case it influences your answer - I've been running for about a year. Prior to that, couldn't run a mile. Trained for a 5K last spring, & fell in love with running. Trained for a half marathon & broke a bone in my foot the week before the race. No running for six months due to a variety of recovery complications. Fast forward to now - been cleared to run since the last week in December.
I'm currently training for a half marathon in May. Ideally, I'd also like to run one in April, and have been following my training schedule as though I was running it in April, just in case the dates work out. I'm doing well with miles (running about 30-35 miles/week). My last long run was 11 miles on Friday.
I'm running a 15K race next Sunday (3/18). How much should I scale back my miles next week? Not at all? Treat it as a long run & follow my training plan as usual? I'm not particularly gung ho on any particular time - I just want to finish. Because of that, I'm thinking of just following my plan & doing a mile warm up/cool down & running the 15K.
Thoughts?
Re: Training for two events
I wouldn't scale back the miles next week since the 15K is not your goal race. I'd just run your normal mileage during the week. take saturday off or do a shorter run, run the 15K hardish (maybe @ goal HM pace) and not worry about making up the mileage with warm-up/cool down (at least any more than you normally would for a 15K).
unless the race was April 1st. then I might take it a little easier at the 15K, but not long run pace easy. just because it's your first half/15K.
work it into your long run, like you said, and I wouldn't alter your schedule unless you have a really hard speed workout the day before the race. Race it as hard as you want and your body will let you know the following week if you need some additional recovery time or not.
If you do have to take a few days off to recovery or scale back your mileage some, one week of doing that isn't going to hurt you.
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