the nervous trainer

I don't know what it is about training for a half marathon, but I just get stupid nervous that I'm not doing enough.  Heck, I'm probably in more danger from doing too much than too little, but do I worry about that?  Nope.

Last week I found out that my favorite podcast: Podrunner now has a companion podcast: Podrunner Intervals.  It's great!  I finally got to use one this morning when I was running on the treadmill.  It will be much more valuable when I am finally ready to run outside on a more regular basis again. 

The current set of Podrunner Intervals are covering the couch-to-5K plan from week to week, but because they are not voiced over, they can be used for intervals at any speed (the podcast I was using before told you to walk).  There are plans for more of these beyond the couch-to-5K 9 week program, so I am looking forward to more of these for half marathon training.

As quite a few of the reviewers commented, it would be great if there was a signal to start the cooldown or indicate the last interval of the set.  I consider that kind of like gravy.  It would be great, but if I can convince my body to work harder for a few more minutes than that is not the end of the world.

I'm using the Novice Half Marathon Training Guide again.  I could probably move up to the Advanced Guide or find one for Intermediate runners, but I misjudged my training start date and had to remove a week from the schedule anyway.  Whoops.

So hope to see lots of people at Ras na Heireann this weekend!