It’s been a while
Well it’s been a while since I have entered a post so here’s the update. My goal when I last wrote was to complete Boston in under 3 hours. I did accomplish my goal and got a PR as well. I wrote a full race report which I will post soon.
Now my new goal is the Chicago marathon this fall. I am setting a goal which probably the hardest goal I’ve ever set. The bar is real high on this one. I am going to try for elite status at the USATF National Masters Championship marathon. That means I will need to run a marathon under 2:40. There it’s out, I said it, it’s official. Now comes the hard part…the training. I decided to use a different training plan for this race. I guess I figure if I’m going to try to get that much faster I need to do something drastic. Up until now I’ve used Hal Higdon’s Advanced II marathon training plan with great success. The other part of the plan is to drop some weight. Maybe 8 pounds or so.
The new training plan has a lot more miles per week and longer runs. In fact, I will we running 3 runs over the marathon distance with one being 30 miles. I think this will work for me, I’m not sure. We’ll see what happens. I need to shave 7 minutes off of my Boston time.
I plan to update this blog with my workouts from the beginning of the plan all the way through. Hopefully I can keep it up. I’m already 3 weeks in, so I will have to enter the earlier workouts in a summary post.
