I woke up with a goal to complete today’s long run of 19.3 km (yes, I am training for a marathon in November this year). Unfortunately, I was only able to complete 11.3 km. My body felt stiff, and something that should have been easy felt more exhausting than it should have been.
I came back home and took a shower (nothing like being sweat-drenched to feeling supremely clean post-workout!) and had lunch. Decided to take a nap but then doom scrolled on Reddit. With some motivation left in me, I decided to change my training plan and download the Runna app. I have been following Hal Higdon’s full marathon beginner training plan. However, because I skipped weeks 03 – 06 (I was busy moving from Denver to Dallas), my long runs are now suffering since I haven’t built the base mileage progressively to complete the long runs in week 7. So catching up isn’t working.
I downloaded Runna and it has made me a customized plan for the next 13 weeks. I know it’s a bit shorter than the desired 16-18 weeks for a full marathon training, but I am honestly banking on the half marathon training I did since the beginning of this year and completed in May 2025. And I have been consistently strength training, so my fitness is there, but my runs need help at the moment. So hopefully, this calibration works out. It’s better to get things wrong in your training and fix them now than to regret something on race day. Been there, done that.
I also made some oat milk. I’m not sure how it will taste with my coffee tomorrow, but I am determined to make it work. Right now it’s 8:05 pm, and I will have my protein shake before I go to bed and cozy up with my Kindle. P.S. I am reading ‘The Pumpkin Spice Cafe’ by Gilmore Laurie. It’s a slow-burn romance with all the shenanigans of that beautiful quaint town, lots of coffee, and the small-town boy and big-town girl falling for each other and all the drama, but hey, I need it!