Half Marathon Training Plan

Training for my race in Hannover starts today!  Today is a rest day, so I was incredibly successful.

Below is the plan I made for myself.  I had found a 14-week plan in a recent Runner's World magazine, but it had some crazy long weekday runs.  I know myself, and I can get out of bed to run four or five, but not eight or nine, especially when it's still completely dark out.  By the time I get to my first weekday run longer than six miles, dawn will be at 6:45, which is so much better than 7:45 right now.

Plus I haven't really run since my last half marathon last year in Dresden, so I didn't want to jump right into a 30 mile week.

The first training plan I have ever made!

I didn't want to clutter up my nice plan to explain the workouts, but I'll do it here.  Resting, easy running, and long, slow, distance runs are self explanatory.  For hills, I will do four long hill repeats in the middle of the run.  And tempo runs are just the middle 30-35 minutes at tempo.  No one wants to do an eight mile tempo run.  That's gross.