So I totally stopped posting on my Lent commitment... Oh well. It is what it is and there's no crying over spilled milk.
My hope this time is to blog about my marathon training. I am doing a 16 week plan from the book Run Less, Run Faster. Understanding that due to my genetic makeup, "faster" for me is nothing close to what real athletes would call fast, my goal is really just to run this upcoming marathon in less than 5 hours. My first marathon took me exactly 6 hours - 18 miles of running until my knees hurt too badly to keep running, 7 miles of walking, then 1 mile of run/walking with an 80 year old man named Charles who became my inspiration to keep going.
I am currently at week 12 of training (counting backwards from 16), and have not completed all of the sessions due to 1. being in Japan, and 2. being sick with a chest cold that made it hard to breathe in the mornings. I hope to stick to this training plan as closely as possible, however, and will blog about my efforts along the way in hopes to create some accountability.
Tomorrow is a 6 mile tempo run, so we'll see how that goes.
