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Did some reading up on Hal Higdon's site and thought, sod it, let's aim for a half.
Looking at this: http://www.halhigdon.com/training/51312/Half-Marathon-Novice-2-Training-Program
Mileage wise, each week, i'm not too far off the first weeks, so instead of doing a long saturday run, i'll chuck a few shorter ones in in the week, and build milage that way.
However, my schedule can't follow his exactly. I can really only swim on tuesdays, so my plan is
Monday - rest day
Tuesday - swim
Wednesday - short run
Thursday - short run
Friday - rest day
Saturday - long run
Sunday - rest day / short slow run if I have the legs for it
So slight re-jigging of his schedule, and probably one less short run per week.
Still feasible? My training now is 1k swimming on tuesdays, 5-7k run on thursdays or a 25k ride, and then 10-14k run on saturdays. So cutting back on saturdays, adding more in the week.
Too steep a curve? Really don't want to blow my knees up half way. And if I can do it 8 weeks instead that'd be good too...