Austin Marathon Training Series: Week 5

Motivation
This far out from the event it is difficult to know just how close you’ll come to accomplishing your goals.  At times can seem like a lot of work for a pay-off that may not happen.  There is a little bit of faith involved in training for long distance races.  Faith that all your hard work and effort will yield results.  If faith is low, then try finding ways to enjoy your workouts.  There are several ways to make your workouts more fun.

Motivation Tips

1. Watch running oriented movies and videos, like this one:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai3RDfmlCbA.  To get you in the mood.
2. Change up your venues to find new and exciting places to run, you can start with some of these parks and trails:  http://www.runtex.com/web/4-15.asp.
3. Add social interaction to your workouts by joining up with a group or participate in a fun run to meet other runners.  You can find  a whole list of fun runs here:  http://www.runtex.com/web/4-2.asp.   
4. Run during cooler times of the day and in areas with lots of shade. 

Meeting Groups
These are the days and times and places that we’ll be giving these group workout options. If other groups decide to use this program as their template and want to be listed here, email Donnie O’Neal. If you join us for workouts, I recommend initially only coming to 1 of the weekday (M/W or T/TH) workouts and the Saturday long run workout.   For more information about this program contact Donnie O’Neal or David Moody

Workouts
Below are the workouts for the different levels of the Half and Marathon.