My next goal race is the Little Kings Mile, a part of the Flying Pig Marathon weekend in Cincinnati, Ohio. Now that we're past Publix and only a little more than six weeks out, it's time to start focusing my training on:
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While I've gone through enough training programs to feel comfortable with the components of a basic distance training plan, I'm only moderately competent with the 5K distance, and completely clueless when it comes to anything shorter. So, I started off by reaching out to my coach (EEE! It's still exciting to say that!). She's put in long runs for the next few weeks (who would've thought I'd still be approaching double digit long runs while training for a single mile? lol), added some short runs with strides before strength training days, and scheduled some 800m repeats to see exactly what I can do before generating the rest.
I also took a look at the course for my goal race. Not paying attention to the y-axis, I kind of flipped out at first. OMG, that hill, right? Then, upon further evaluation, I realized it's like a 15' gain. Finishing off 10KTuesday (which have turned to progression runs) with the hill should be a good practice for maintaining and kicking up an incline... especially since the actual race course won't be NEARLY that bad.
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