Four Bridges Half Marathon Training: Week One

My "second week" of training for the Four Bridges Half Marathon is in the books. This week was the first that was guided by the training program on the Four Bridges site. This week's running included a 10K race, and it will be interesting to see how that affects my training in the upcoming week.

Here's my weekly mileage compared to the Four Bridges training plan:

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
	Sep 10	Sep 11	Sep 12	Sep 13	Sep 14	Sep 15	Sep 16
4BHM Plan	3.5	2.5		3.5	2.5	5.0
Actual	4.75	3.30		5.00	3.35		6.20

Plan Mileage: 17.0
Actual Mileage: 22.60

Looking at my mileage for the week, I have some concern that I'm overdue-ing it too early, and that my weekly mileage increased perhaps too much over the previous week. I started the week a bit strong due to concern over when I'd get my second run in for the week: I had a billiards competition in which I was competing Tuesday night that had potential to continue to the next two nights (we additionally played Wednesday). However, I got home early enough on Tuesday to run, so I was concerned over nothing.

Taking a look at the upcoming week, here's what's recommended by Four Bridges:

Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
5.0	2.0		4.0	2.0	6.0

Plan Mileage: 19.0

I have tennis on Thursday, so I'll likely do that run on Wednesday. I'm a bit concerned about 7 straight days of physical activity as well as how much my body is going to be ready to run on Monday. Also, I want my long run of the week to be 7 miles. I'll probably move a mile from Monday to Saturday to address those items. Worst case, I could additionally move a mile from Monday to Tuesday to allow more recovery.

Two weeks down and six more to go, and my body is holding up pretty well so far. Hopefully I'll still be able to say the same in five weeks.