City2Surf training Plan
Once you have decided to enter the City2Surf, you need to consider some training and preparation. Believe me, if you do the preparation, you will have a fantastic run to Bondi and feel pretty good (relatively speaking) when you finish.
Sticking to a training program is very difficult for many of us, particularly during the cold months of June and July (if you live in the southern part of the country as I do).
There are three training programs provided on the Sun Herald City2Surf site at:
http://res.au.eventdirector.net/FAIRF/SITES/1162/default.asp?PageID=17816
For most people, the City2Surf ‘Finisher Program’, (which is a beginner’s program) will be the most appropriate.
However, there are a number of things I don’t like about this program. In particular, it requires you to run five days a week for 10 weeks in the lead up to the event.
I believe that you will be better off have two consecutive rest days per week to fully recuperate, especially if you haven’t done a lot of regular running in recent times.
This ‘Finisher Program’ doesn’t have enough variety by way of speed, hills and variations in distance and effort.
I have put together my own City2Surf training program up as a Google Calendar to share. My training program is for beginners to intermediate.
Beginners training schedule 2009 on Google Calendars
For”>http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/58vu97pq9fpf6jmk73kkofcels%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
For a full explanation of training and my preparation, follow along with my training program on my Facebook coaching page.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Step-by-Step-Coaching/77972562545
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