Praying and Running

Training for the Carmel Marathon on April 4th, 2020 in Carmel Indiana Goal: 2:51 Week 2 Runs: 8 Weekly Milage: 72 Cumulative Milage: 139 Workouts / Long Run: 17 with 8 at Marathon Pace Performance Management Chart for the week showing my running fitness progression from the beginning of the cycle through the current week. The main focus this week was just building my milage a little from last week, about 5 more miles, while being ready for my first MP workout. I am pretty focused right now and I struggled some last week with wanting to do more that the plan called for. I really wanted to add in a threshold workout. Marathon training is about discipline and long term thinking though. I could have added in some threshold miles and it probably would have been ok but doing the plan the way the plan is written will get me where I want to go and will keep me feeling on track and help me from wavering in the other direction as well. I'm doing the plan, period. I ran my fi...

April 4th 2020 Carmel Indiana Goal: 2:51 This Week's Training Runs: 7 Milage: 67 Workouts: 4 mile threshold (6:20 --> 6:04) Long Run: 17 miles with a fast finish Week 1 for the 2020 Carmel Marathon is in the books, so to speak. My primary goals for this week were just to get back into the training groove and get a decent amount of milage in while getting back to the 7 day a week running thing. Honestly, it feels like I just raced a marathon about a month ago...... The biggest challenge this week was probably the 7 day a week running. I haven't run on Sunday in about 5 weeks and I kind of got used to having a day off. But days off don't help you run fast marathons, at least they don't help me run fast marathons. The other challenge this week was the threshold run. With the short turn around I was a little afraid that I wouldn't do very well. I really didn't feel like I needed to knock that workout out of the park but I also didn't want t...