I've come to the decision today that I am going to compete in the annual City to Surf fun run. For non-Aussies I'll briefly mention that City to Surf is a 14.3km run along the Sydney waterfront that has about 70,000 contestants each year. Registration is in a couple of months, but the actual run is almost 6 months away. There is different categories of runners, and I'd like to make it my goal to run it in under 100 minutes so as to qualify me for the second highest category (professional runners, serious runners, semi-serious runners, and families/walkers being the basic categories).
Now, I only started exercising a couple of weeks ago, so at the moment it takes me about 7 minutes to run a kilometre, so times 14.3 is almost exactly 100 minutes, BUT that is over a distance of 3 or 4kms and definitely not maintainable over 14.3kms.
I think 6 months is a pretty adequate timeframe to improve my fitness and time, but I'm not sure what kind of training I should be doing. OBVIOUSLY a fair amount of running, I'm not sure of any particulars, i.e. incline/terrain/training frequency/supplementary strength training exercises/handy hints etc. Basically anything that will help me devise a training program that will get me in shape to run 14.3kms in 90ish minutes would be much appreciated!
Cheers.
Now, I only started exercising a couple of weeks ago, so at the moment it takes me about 7 minutes to run a kilometre, so times 14.3 is almost exactly 100 minutes, BUT that is over a distance of 3 or 4kms and definitely not maintainable over 14.3kms.
I think 6 months is a pretty adequate timeframe to improve my fitness and time, but I'm not sure what kind of training I should be doing. OBVIOUSLY a fair amount of running, I'm not sure of any particulars, i.e. incline/terrain/training frequency/supplementary strength training exercises/handy hints etc. Basically anything that will help me devise a training program that will get me in shape to run 14.3kms in 90ish minutes would be much appreciated!
Cheers.
