The Method

My training plan is not the most conventional plan. I pretty much made it up myself. The principles behind it are sound, but untested, in that I have never read or heard of anyone training exactly as I am.

Let me explain. This winter and spring I have done a tremendous amount of training for the Riverbank Run. I was running 5 or 6 days a week. I was out of the house and away from the wife and kids a lot of the time. But this race is different because my only goal is to finish, I don't care about my speed. This allows me to neglect speed training and focus on building my endurance. This is done through running long (15+ miles) at a stretch. Also I didn't want to be unavailable every day of the week, so with these two principles in mind, I developed (i.e. made up) what I'll call the Navis Method. It only required two days of running, though admittedly those two days are nothing to shake a stick at. It looks like this:

Sunday REST
Monday REST
Tuesday 10 miles in the morning
10 miles in the evening
Wednesday REST
Thursday Strength training (or REST)
Friday REST
Saturday progressing from 16-28 miles

The Tuesday runs will happen before the kids are up and after they are in bed, so really the only day I'll have to leave them will be on Saturday. Granted I'll be gone for 2-4 hours, but it will only be one day a week. I have already promised Caryn that once this race is over, she can sleep in every Saturday until the baby arrives.

Obviously, if anyone is interested in doing even part of a Saturday run with me, I would be more than willing to find a place and time that would work, especially if you know of a dirt trail system that isn't too far away.

-Adam