Coming to the end of the 1st month in 2014, I am following well with my training plan. By this time, I should be logging 20km per week and I did. 20km/week is a special number to me. I guess it was the target that I had since I started running seriously.
Since I started to run ~2+ years ago, out of 80 weeks that I recorded my mileage, only 16 weeks were with weekly mileage of more than 20km excluding the weeks with race. Nothing magic, but this is a good start for the year.
As I read somewhere that optimum running mileage per week is between 10miles to 20 miles, my long term target is to run 30km/week while keeping 20km/week as minimum. While achieving 30km/week, I am targeting to run 17km in the long run. The 17km is chosen because I think it takes me 2 hours to run 17km. Again, I read somewhere that running more than 2 hours continuously has no significant benefits in improving endurance. Thus, 17km is my target now.
From my planning of 3 runs a week, achieving 17km will also bring me to 30km per week and then 80km per month. Thus, all the goals aligned! Amazing.
As I can achieve those target (probably end of June this year), I will consider myself to have the base of running and will work on improving my speed. Once I can improve my speed, I will slowly increase my mileage to keep to 30mins run during weekday and 2 hours of long run during weekend.
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