Half-marathon!

	Half-marathon!

	2023-08-01 - New York


	I finally signed up for the Oxford Half Marathon again this
	year. Very excited. Since I habitually live on another continent,
	running that race has certain… overhead. Like going to visit
	my family, drinking Real Ale, steering a hired canal boat along
	the Oxford Canal with friends. etc, etc.


	I did it, and documented it, last year[1].


	1: gemini://tilde.club/~mycrobe/journal/tags/oxford/

	I have a training plan


	I'm not in great shape right now. And my friends who are running
	it are quite quick. I need to get faster. I need to train. And
	to lose some weight, since I'm pretty heavy right now.


	I made a plan! I have made it using intervals.icu[2], and
	taking into account vacations that are coming up. It may be a
	bit ambitious! But it can be adjusted on the fly and I'll still
	know where I stand.


	2: https://intervals.icu/

	Look! Here is a graphic that the web site generated:


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	The vertical light grey line is today. The top graph is about the
	state of my fitness: the blue line is my fitness and the purple
	line is my fatigue. (I don't know what the units are, but in my
	experience they are both arbitrary and useful.) The bottom graph
	is about whether I'm doing too much or too little. When trying
	to get fit, you want to be in the green zone, but for races you
	want to be in the blue "fresh" zone. As you get fitter, you need
	to do progressively more work in order to be in the green zone.


	Workouts are either Power Zone rides on my Peloton spin bike,
	or runs. I'm choosing to use the peloton because a) I'm very
	familiar with it and b) it's a low-injury risk way to rapidly
	improve cardio fitness. In the first block the plan is one long
	run, one short run, and two peloton rides per week. As I get
	closer to the race I'll transition to 3 runs and 1 ride.


	I've given myself a goal that I care about, and am orienting my
	fitness plans around it. Hopefully I can stick to it.


	TODOs:


	* Look into fancy fast running shoes

	* Find some more shorts which aren't going to chafe too much

	* Put an outdoor ride or two into the plan




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