Example Training Log

A simple training log is useful for laying out your program and monitoring your progress. The one given below is used in the Portland Marathon Clinic. You can devise a similar form of your own. If you lay out one on a single sheet of paper you can copy it and use a loose leaf notebook to store enough weeks for your entire training plan. Fill out your workout schedules several weeks into the future, planning around things such as races, appointments, etc.

Each day log your resting pulse (HR), your weight, general health (1-5 scale), and when you went to bed. After your workout log your recovery pulse (HR), time and any other comments. You can refer to your log to monitor your progress, to determine where things went right or wrong or to look for signs of overtraining.

Credits

Run The Planet thanks Patti & Warren Finke and Team Oregon for the permission to reprint the complete online version of the first edition of the book Marathoning Start to Finish (Hypertext Version 1.02) by Patti & Warren Finke. © 1986, 1996 wY'east Consulting, All Rights reserved.

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