The daily adventures of a list-obsessed, oversharing, active first-time mum
Another 2 weeks down, and some more progress to report in! It’s been an interesting 2 weeks. I had a bit of a slump energy wise during week 4, but I have only missed one workout to so far (which was a cross training work out and not a run). Well, except for tonight, but there’s a reason for that. Kind of related, I also completed my second park run ever and shaved 6mins off my time – wahoo! On the equipment front I’m now parading around with some new shoes.
Let’s take a look. [...]
I’m 3 weeks into my training, 24 weeks left in my training plan and 37 weeks left until the half marathon.
The first few weeks have been good to give me a bit of an introduction of what’s to come. I’ve also been able to get an idea of what works and doesn’t work, equipment wise, and so there’s been a bit of chopping and changing with what I’m doing.
Let’s take a look at what I’ve learned so far.
I used the Nike Run Club app to create my training plan, purely because it was an app that I knew that had them, and it integrated with my Apple watch. Simplicity is what won here. The fact that I could customise the plan based on timeframe was great. They also have some awesome looking “guided runs” that I wanted to try in the future (also available to start on the watch). [...]
In 2019 I will be running a half marathon.
Hooooooly shit.
I signed up for the Sunshine Coast half marathon for a couple of reasons.
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