Finishing is Winning‘s Brain Exchange:

This Week’s Topic:  Building Mileage

This Week’s Question:  Regardless of the distance you train for, or whether it be road racing or triathlon, training is time consuming.  What are your tricks for fitting all your training into your schedule?  How do you balance family, friends, work and training?

Balance is the hardest part of running, especially if you are training for a long race. I have to fit in tennis contracts, tennis matches, yoga, work, appts, mah jongg, my mentee, my friends, and my hubby.

 I plan all my running for the week on Monday. I post my running schedule on my blog. It keep me accountable.

I arrange my running around my life and my life around my running.

So far, I have luckily been able to do it all.

However, you have to be realistic and flexible.  So sometimes, the running part gets cut short because other things are more important.

Last week update:

My goal was 24 miles and I ran 5 times for a total of  24  miles. YAY!!
I played tennis once  and did Yoga once.
This was Week #9 of my 2nd Half Marathon training.  3 weeks to go!

Goals for this week:

This week’s schedule:

Mon – dentist
Wed – yoga
Thurs – meet bf at the mall
Fri –  OFF from Work, mah jongg

This week’s running:

Tues – 4 miles after work
Wed – 3  miles after work
Fri – 12  miles
Sun –  Delmar Dash 5 mile race 

 
Weekly Running Goal = 24 miles 
April Monthly Running Goal = 80 miles, a race, a Half Marathon

Yearly Running Goal = 1011 miles

Happy Running!