Building Up Mileage - Milo Finals Training Schedule

After my July marathon, I rested and remained on my bed on Sunday mornings.

From 211 kilometers of mileage last July, I logged a measly 35 kilometers for the whole of August. I loved the rest though and I absolutely took comfort from my bed rather than those long tiring run on the road especially during Sundays.

Until now.

I now need to slowly build up my mileage once again as the Milo Finals is slowly but surely approaching. From 8-10 kilometers a week, I am now pushing for 42-50 kilometers per week of running. Time to rise and shine early once again. To do some road pounding in a quest to conquer yet another marathon.

We build. We build. One more time. Up we go again, bye bye bed, hello highway.

For me, the marathon is pretty much like building a house. Before you can go rest at night on a comfortable room and eat your meals at the kitchen, you need to lay down a very strong and solid foundation first. And that's my weekly and monthly mileage. I can't go and run a successful marathon without diligently piling up kilometers and kilometers of mileage. That is how we build endurance. That is how we condition our legs and lungs for the long marathon grind.

http://immobilienblasen.blogspot.com/

And one critical thing about the foundation, we must be careful to lay it slowly and gradually. Start building the mileage base with manageable Easy and Long runs before we pile up the longer Long runs, the high intensity Yasso runs and the Tempo runs.

This is still the same principle from the Eliminations, only a slight modification to run longer Tempo runs for speed endurance and longer Long runs to be able to finish the marathon stronger. Just incorporating my Alpha 1 teammate's advice to maintain my speed and focus more on endurance training. Thanks Eugene for those cues!

And if the foundation is solid enough, then we can sleep a good night rest and eat our sumptuous meals later.

We build. We build. One more time. Up we go again, bye bye bed, hello highway.

My Milo Marathon Finals Training Schedule

Week #	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
1
2		8K Easy
3		8K Easy		5K Tempo
4		10K Easy
5		10K Easy		7K Tempo
6		10K Easy		7K Tempo
7		12K Easy		9K Tempo			21K Long
8		12K Easy		9K Tempo			25K Long
9		15K Easy		12K Tempo			29K Long
10		15K Easy (only 8Km)		12K Tempo		***
11		15K Easy		13K Easy			29K Long
12		Yassox4	5K Easy	15K Tempo			31K Long
13		Yassox5	5K Easy	15K Tempo			33K Long
14		Yassox6	6K Easy	17K Tempo			35K Long
15		Yassox7	6K Easy	17K Tempo			31K Long
16		Yassox8	7K Easy	19K Tempo			35K Long
17		Yassox9	7K Easy	19K Tempo			39K Long
18		Yassox10	5K Easy	15K Tempo			25K Long
19		10K Easy		10K Tempo			MILO FINALS