This post is about the Fifth Week of Jeffing Half Marathon Training. I had devised a Jeffing Half Marathon Training Plan for myself and my teen. For me the aim was to get sub 2 hours, and the teen was to complete his first one. This is how things were going following the end of week 4.
The Fifth Week
The only walking I did on the Monday was the school run. In fact I had a lot going on with one thing or another and wasn’t feeling great. Emma (from CrazywithTwins) picked up on this and suggested we meet up for coffee which was nice.
![Pinkoddy and Crazy with Twins](https://i0.wp.com/pinkoddy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/crazy-with-twins.jpg?resize=800%2C600)
The training this week we mixed up due to the fact I needed to go to the hospital. On the Tuesday we did 3 miles – a warm up, fast mile and a cool down. I was gutted that my fast mile began and ended on a walk as it was so close to my fastest!
![jeffing 3 miles](https://i0.wp.com/pinkoddy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/run-3-miles.jpg?resize=800%2C800)
Self-Isolating
As I had to self-isolate for hospital we combined a long run with our 2 x 800m. Teen had shown me how I could change the lap alerts on my Garmin which made it easier! He decided to just straight run the 800m whereas I was jeffing them. He started off before me and at one point I even overtook him. This was on the first 800m. I was sad to see it wasn’t my fastest and my second was slower. In total we decided to stop at 5 miles.
We planned to go further but we were rather tired and hot. I agreed that it really was far enough. I don’t want him to lose the motivation to train.
The Rest of the Week
Of course the rest of the week I was stuck in the house. Then I had my flexible sigmoidoscopy which did involve a bit of walking – but that was it. The teen did have another stand up paddle board evening with the group he volunteers with though.