With the 10 mile run last Sunday under my belt I’ve finally accumulated enough miles to begin week #1 of my marathon training program. And I was elated to discover that the training program I adopted was a 16 week training program, not a 20 week program as I had suspected. Ironically, I was exactly 16 weeks away from my marathon. Praise God.
I diligently plugged in every long run, speed work, and tempo run into my running calendar and vowed to keep this schedule as if my life depended on it. The marathon training plan asked what my 10K pace was, that determined how fast my long runs, speed work, and tempo runs should be.
I thought back to the LMC 10K and my 10 min/mile pace. Now a 10 min/mile pace put my long runs at 11 min/miles and my speed work and tempo runs at such a slow pace I didn’t think that would be challenging enough. So I’ve decided to base all my runs on a 9 min/mile pace. I hope this is an okay thing to do...
Now I just need to find a running group to join on Sunday to encourage and push me to keep going as the miles get longer. I’ve asked several friends to email or call around to find me a group but so far no luck.
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