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].
       
       
 (HTM) 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.
       
       
 (HTM) 2: https://intervals.icu/
       
       Look! Here is a graphic that the web site generated:
       
       
 (IMG) [IMG]
       
       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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