Four Bridges Half Marathon Training: Week Four

With week four of training in the books, I'm now just three weeks away from the Four Bridges Half Marathon. I completed my longest run of the year yesterday beating my previous long (from July) by a twentieth of a mile. More impressively, I finished 10 minutes faster than I did in that run in July. Further proof that all of this training is making me a stronger runner.

With that said, here's my weekly mileage compared to the Four Bridges training plan:

	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
	Oct 01	Oct 02	Oct 03	Oct 04	Oct 05	Oct 06	Oct 07
4BHM Plan	6.0	3.0		4.0	3.0	8.0
Actual	7.00	4.20	4.70	Tennis		9.15

Plan Mileage: 24.0
Actual Mileage: 25.05

With as well as things have gone so far, I do have to keep in mind a half marathon is still four miles longer than my long run of the week. I'll add at least an additional mile to that in the upcoming week. Speaking of which, here's the Four Bridges suggested plan for the upcoming week:

Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
6.0	3.0		5.0	3.0	10.0

Plan Mileage: 27.0

I'll be making a good deal of alternations to the plan this week. For starters, there's a 5K at work on Sunday, so I'll be moving Friday's 3 miles to Sunday. I'd like a day of rest before racing that 5K since I'd like to try to beat not only my 5K PR but also 27:00, so I'll do the long run on Friday instead of Saturday. To get enough rest for Friday, I'll move Thursday's run to Wednesday. There's a chance of rain on Monday, but hopefully it won't be enough to affect my plan.

The schedule I'm taking on for this week will likely result in me needing to make adjustments to the following week of running also. But we'll worry about that once I get through this week.