Thinking about it ....

I've had a look at several training schedules and have decided to go with one from Runner's World magazine. It lists runs 4 x week which seems realistic, 3 medium length runs followed by one long run. They then increase in distance gradually over the next few weeks. I've just got to decide which days to do the runs on. I would usually do the long run on a Sunday but have decided that I would rather do it on a Saturday morning - it then means I can have a good time on Saturday night without having to worry about a hangover!

I'm still going to continue with my swimming which I usually do on Monday night (lesson) and I then try to get to the pool twice a week in the morning before going to work. I normally do my weight workout on a Saturday morning but the gym has a weights session on Tuesday evening or Thursday evening so I could move it to then. I usually do a Fitball session (good workout for the core muscles) on a Thursday evening but I think either the Fitball or the weights may need to be dropped - just can't decide which out of the two would be more beneficial to keep. May be I'll do the weights on Tuesday and Fitball Thursday for the first couple of weeks and just see how it goes...

This does sound like a heavy workload but it's pretty much what I've been doing for a while now, just one more extra run but, of course, my runs have been a fair bit shorter and I certainly haven't been doing a long run.