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John
Lv 7
John asked in SportsRunning · 7 years ago

4 week running schedule?

Hi.

I am running a 10k on Thanksgiving.

I was wondering if anyone could tell me a good training schedule for increasing my daily mileage from 3 miles to 5 or 6.

Background:

I used to run cross country in high school, but I stopped running during college.

After college, for about 2 years now, I have played hockey in a rec league 1 night per week. I have gone to the gym on and off for exercise, but nothing serious.

I went out for a couple runs last week, and went 3 miles at a slow 9 minute pace without much trouble, but my leg muscles were pretty sore after.

So I would like to run a 10k on Thanksgiving. Training for it will motivate me to get back into a regular running schedule.

So, is there an exercise schedule someone could suggest for me? Right now I was thinking something like

Sun-Thurs Run 3 miles

Friday - Hockey

Saturday - OFF

And then increase the distance by 1 mile each week if I feel ready.

Or should I add an OFF day on Tuesday?

Any help would be great, thanks.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Sunday, tuesday, thursday, would be good running days. I would do an easy day on Thursday cause you'll be doing hockey on Friday. Then you could do a Long slow day on Saturday and intervals or hills on Tuesday. or vice versa.

    Hal Higdon joel galloway, and RunnersWorld all have 10 K running schedules on line. Look them over and pick one out - they are all good. Oh, i think Galloway also has an app for that.

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