Half marathon followed by 30 mile challenge walk

prdavies1949

Hi I am not sure I have done the right thing but I am trying to train for 2 different types event at the same time as I am committed to doing both. In 7 weeks I run my second half marathon of the year and 7 days later I have a 30 mile in 10hrs off road, hilly challenge walk. The half marathon will be my first race with my daughter and I need to be up to speed for that. My first half I ran in 2:28 back in June. Since then I have upped my pace till last sunday I did just over 10 miles running at 9.30 min/miles. I am aiming to do a 2:10. I am running 3 times a week, 2 5/6 milers and a longer run.
As training for my walk I am missing out the long run every 2nd week and substituting a 20+ mile walk taking about 7hrs. I have to do this walk to qualify for the 100km nonstop walk I am doing next April which is the qualifier for the 100mile nonstop walk which I intend to do later.
OK so far I think the training is going well and I am feeling confident about the run and think I can scrape round the 30 mile walk. But here's the stupid thing, I am booked on a Mediterranean cruise for 17 days from September 17 to Oct 4 my run is Oct 13 with walk on Oct 20.
I am not sure how I can complete my training for either event. Long outside runs or walks are out but there is a fully equipped gym on board though I haven't done much gym work before I did use some equipment last winter when I first started running.
Any help or advice would be much appreciated. And yeah I know, if I hadn't been so stupid and had planed things out better I wouldn't be in the shjt now.

DavidMartinez2

I have not done a cruise but it is my understanding that Mediterranean cruises pull in every other day. I would suggest that every time the boat pulls in you go for a run. Not only will this help you keep up to speed with your training but it will give you an opprotunity to see parts of the cities you would not see on the normal tourist tours.

CarsonRuns

It sounds like you are going to spend a lot of time on the treadmill in the ship's gym.

scottb81

Use the treadmill. It's not as bad as you would think and you can do decent training on one. I did 21 mi on the treadmill today and entertained myself with NETFLIX.

WhataBroad

I like Dave's idea; do some planning for runs in the ports you visit along the way... in combination with the treadmill of course.

prdavies1949

Thanks for your thoughts, I'm afraid I've been banned from running in most of the ports as apparently my wife wants me to take her on sight seeing trips, but I will try to sneak off and put some miles in. It looks like me and the treadmills are going to become good friends at sea.
I am trying to get my head round the idea of doing early morning laps of the deck, but my polar GPS watch is going to have a headache. On the half of the lap when I am running in the direction of travel it will have my pace as mine and the ships combined speeds on the second half it will show the ships speed minus mine. I think. Or I can measure the lap and just time it.
Hmmm back to plan A, treadmills here I come.