Training as a college senior while balancing academics can be quite a challenge, especially when preparing for an event like a half marathon. From my experience, consistency and tracking your progress are key to successful training. This week’s workouts including runs from 2.5 to 7 miles with varied paces around 9:18 to 9:41 minutes per mile provide a great template for endurance building. Heart rate monitoring, like the 106 to 138 bpm recorded here, helps gauge effort and recovery, ensuring you don’t overtrain while still pushing your limits. Calories burned per session, ranging between 117 and 229, offer insight into the energy expenditure helpful for nutrition planning. Adding auxiliary strength or cross-training exercises on lighter days can also improve endurance and reduce injury risk. Using platforms like Runna and Strava, as tagged in the post, helps track your routes and progress while engaging with a supportive running community. It’s motivating to see cumulative stats and connect with others training locally, here at the University of Minnesota, or globally. For collegiate athletes or fitness enthusiasts juggling busy schedules, this structured weekly plan coupled with digital tracking tools makes goal-setting for events like half marathons achievable and rewarding.