Since last October I have taken time off, had failed training attempts at the mile and 10k, logged a fair amount of miles, all just biding my time until marathon training starts. I now have a date. June 1st marks 18 weeks from the start of the Twin Cities Marathon. I find that I respond well to a longer training cycles, so June 1st it is. How perfect, June 1st is a Monday, so my training plan is a nice and neat little package. I don't plan on anything too radically different than last year; average mileage per week of 88 to 90, Tuesday quality run, Wednesday MLR, long run and racing on the week-end. I have two levels of goals, A =2:49:59, B=2:53:59. Everything would have to go right to hit that A goal, but everybody needs to dream right?
The back is better. Turns out it is really not my back at all, just tight abductors and IT band, and I still think my Psoas muscle is the culprit. Whatever it is, the stretching is working and I ran every day this week except Thursday, which was a traveling day at work.
Also, I am kicking of training season with a race. The Brian Kraft 5k is tomorrow and I am signed up. It's a USATF team race and I hope to run between 18:30 and 18:45. It's a fast course, but I am not in the best of shape. Certainly a long way from PR condition.
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