Nepal Training update #1
Countdown to Nepal – 17weeks Next race – Thunder run 24 hour relay (20th/21st July) A while back, when I had a generous 20 weeks to go before the Kieldermarathon weekend, where I plan to take on the run bike run and the marathon over the two days, I sat down to write my training plan. Here is my simple, but hopefully not flawed logic: I train for Kielder marathon following a fairly standard 18 week marathon training plan; Throw in a good helping of cross training on the bike (commuting, the occasional long ride), swap one or two of the long runs for Brick sessions (run-bike-run); Smash Kielder weekend like a boss then in the 4 weeks before departing for Nepal focus on recovery and sustaining fitness. Sounds simple and solid even if I do say so myself. Training plan I have written my training plan based around the excellent book from Matt Fitzgerald , “80/20 Running” (On amazon here but, as they say, available from all good bookshops, and probably
