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Week 7 of my half marathon training plan

11 May 2025 ·

While this is technically Week 7 of my half-marathon training plan, I needed to return to Week 4 training levels to pick things up again.

Week 4 of my training schedule ended on April 20th. Between then and May 5th, I could only complete four runs, which is now leading to this setback in my schedule. While my initial goal was to increase my pace, I have now adjusted my goal to completing another Half-Marathon distance under 2 hours. The reasoning is twofold:

I need colder weather conditions to beat my personal best (set in December 2016).
My fatigue is high due to a busy period with work-related travel.

Finishing under two hours would still be an improvement compared to my last half-marathon distance run on March 30th of this year.

Date	Duration	Average Heartbeat	Distance	Pace	V02Max	HRV	RHR
Week 7	2:56:27	156 bpm	29,6 km	5:57	41,6	59 ms	59 bpm
20250511	1:24:20	157 bpm	12,88 km	6:33	41,5	54 ms	62 bpm
20250510	16:15	160 bpm	3,24 km	5:01	41,6	68 ms	60 bpm
20250508	6:28	149 bpm	1,02 km	6:20	41,6	61 ms	58 bpm
20250508	26:18	167 bpm	5,04 km	5:13	41,7	61 ms	58 bpm
20250505	28:00	158 bpm	5,03 km	5:34	41,7	54 ms	57 bpm
20250505	15:04	145 bpm	2,43 km	6:31	41,7	54 ms	57 bpm

Run Log 20250510

10 May 2025 ·

To assess my running pace, I repeated the same interval workout today that I did on March 26. While I’m not quite back to where I was a little over six weeks ago, I am pleased with today’s training, as I was able to increase my pace for each set.

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52 Weeks – Week 33

9 May 2025 ·

I’m collecting 52 songs in 52 weeks. Every Friday afternoon, I will add a song to my playlist. The aim is to capture my energy and feelings for that particular Friday with the chosen song.

Week 33/52: Simply Red – Money’s Too Tight (To Mention) [Fire Island Vox Remix]

After 52 weeks, I will have recorded all the seasons, holidays, and high and low weeks of the year (from October 2024 to September 2025) in one self-curated playlist on Apple Music. Don’t use Apple Music? Subscribe to weekly updates via RSS.

Run Log 20250508

8 May 2025 ·

I started this Thursday morning with two different runs on the track: a 5-kilometer tempo run at a pace of 5:13 per kilometer and a 1-kilometer cool-down run at a pace of 6:21 per kilometer.

Both runs went quite well, and I’m happy that I went out again before starting my workday. Today will be a long and intense day filled with meetings and presentations I need to prepare for.

Run Log 20250505

5 May 2025 ·

I promised myself I would pick up my training schedule again this week, so I did today with two separate runs on the track. I did one 15-minute warm-up run and another 28-minute progressive tempo run for 43 minutes of exercise in total.

After stretching on the back of the first run, I started my tempo run, which combined a 5-minute warm-up with a 12-minute ‘out’ and an 11-minute ‘back.’ In my ‘out’ laps, I covered a total distance of 1,96 kilometers; in the ‘back’ run, I covered a distance of 2,28 kilometers.