One Hour Runner (OHR)

After completing the Couch 2 5K (C25K) running programme, I went straight onto the 10 week One Hour Runner (OHR) programme.  

The schedule which I can't seem to find any more, perhaps its fallen out of favour compared with the plethora of other programmes available out there at the moment which are more geared towards completing 10k i.e. Bridge to 10k (B210k) as opposed to being able to run for one hour, which is just under 10k for me at the moment, so back when I did the programme is was more like 8 or 9k in an hour.


However, the main thing to take away from this is to follow a programme which best fits your style i.e. what works for you and as OHR continued the trend of running 3 times a week and started where C25k ended i.e. 30 minute runs it best suited what I was used to at that point.  The OHR plan consists of the following:

Week	Monday	Wednesday	Friday	Total
1	30 minutes	30 minutes	30 minutes	90 minutes
2	30 minutes	30 minutes	30 minutes	90 minutes
3	30 minutes	30 minutes	30 minutes	90 minutes
4	30 minutes	29 minutes	33 minutes	94 minutes
5	30 minutes	32 minutes	38 minutes	100 minutes
6	30 minutes	33 minutes	41 minutes	104 minutes
7	30 minutes	34 minutes	45 minutes	109 minutes
8	30 minutes	36 minutes	49 minutes	115 minutes
9	30 minutes	38 minutes	54 minutes	122 minutes
10	30 minutes	40 minutes	60 minutes	130 minutes

The rest of my training plans have been covered more or less in my posts to date including the Bupa Beginners Half Marathon and more recently my current programme, the Jeff Galloway Marathon programme which I started a little over 3 weeks ago and will run until May next year.  So to summarise so far:

C25K - Started 02 Aug 10, completed 06 Oct 10.

OHR - Started 08 Oct 10, completed 07 Jan 11.

Half Marathon - Started 04 Jul 11, completed 09 Oct 11 (Approximately 380 miles running, 26 miles cycling and 2 miles swimming).

Marathon - Started 17 Oct 11, in progress...due to complete May 12.