Monday, January 10, 2005

Lisbon half marathon

Now I'm training for the 15th Lisbon half marathon, one of the biggest half marathon with 35000 runners. It's on 13th March 2005 on Lisbon, Portugal. Starting at the "25 de Abril" Bridge, proceeding through the streets of Lisbon and will finish in front of the "Mosteiro dos Jerónimos" Monument.Very flat course and also the world's fastest Half Marathon.
I will not follow any training schedule, just run between 2 and 4 times a week at free pace.

Tuesday, January 04, 2005

Run log

David Hays have a free to download run log spreadsheet to keep track of training. Its very usefull: provide a traning plan, run log, statistics, race records, graphics and predictions(??).
Thanks to James

Monday, January 03, 2005

about me

I run just for practice some sport, but I training to do always better time on each running: its import to have some goal on training. I ran a several half-marathons so far and my best time is 1h27 last year. I ran only one marathon (Lisbon marathon) at 3h46.
My goal to this year is to do an half-marathon at 4:00/km pace. And someday (not this year but someday) i wish to run, and finish the London Marathon: the best one :)

Thursday, December 30, 2004

VO2 Max Testing

This site explain how to measure general endurance (VO2 max).
To undertake this test you will require a treadmill where speed and grade of slope can be adjusted, stop watch, an assistant. Here you can check your score and learn about VO2 max.

Training schedules

I found on HAL HIGDON'S a set of interesting training guides for several race distances. Schedules to novice, intermediate and advanced levels.
This is the links to half-marathon intermediate program and a advanced program. The advanced-I program to marathon includes detailed explanations for each day with running tips, stretching, ...