My journey as a marathoner...

Monday Feb 21 AM 18 miles, 2:06min PM Rehab Tuesday Feb 22 AM 6 miles, 43min PM 15 miles, 1:41min, speed drills + hurdle drills Wednesday Feb 23 AM 6 miles, 43min PM 12 miles, 1:24min, speed drills + strides Thursday Feb 24 AM 7 miles, 50min PM 13 miles, 1:34min Workout: Medium effort w/ 8 x 3min Christian Hill Friday Feb 25 AM 7 miles, 53min PM 12 miles, 1:27min Saturday Feb 26 AM 12 miles, 1:33min on heartbreak hill PM 6 miles, 42min, strides Sunday Feb 27 AM 25 miles, 2:25min Workout: Tempo 22 miles at 90-95%MP 2:04:16 (5:38 pace) on Boston marathon course weather: cold, 20's, snowing, course in terrible conditions 1 00:05:23 1.00 2 00:05:26 1.00 3 00:05:30 1.00 4 00:05:33 1.00 5 00:05:40 1.00 6 00:05:40 1.00 7 00:05:33 1.00 8 00:05:37 1.00 9 00:05:39 1.00 10 00:05:37 1.00 11 00:05:42 1.00 12 00:05:45 1.00 13 00:05:41 1.00 14 00:05:40 1.00 15 00:05:55 1.00 climbed 117 feet on this mile 16 00:05:40 1.00 17 00:05:39 1.00 18 00:05:...

Monday Feb 14 AM 6 miles, 43min PM 14 miles, 1:32min Tuesday Feb 15 AM 5 miles, 35min PM 13 miles, 1:29min, speed drills + hurdle drills Wednesday Feb 16 AM 5 miles, 36min PM 20 miles, 1:54min w/ tempo tempo 16 miles on Davis road (1:26:59) Garmin info: Mile / splits 1 00:05:34 2 00:05:31 3 00:05:25 4 00:05:21 5 00:05:26 6 00:05:22 7 00:05:24 8 00:05:12 9 00:05:20 10 00:05:24 11 00:05:25 12 00:05:30 13 00:05:33 14 00:05:26 15 00:05:28 16 00:05:31 Thursday Feb 17 AM 7 miles, 49min PM 10 miles, 69min Friday Feb 18 AM 5 miles, 36min PM 13 miles, 1:30min Saturday Feb 19 AM 10 miles, 70min, speed drills + strides PM off Sunday Feb 20 AM 15 miles, 1:27min Race Foxboro 10 miles, 50:23 ( Results ) Garmin info: 1 00:04:57 1.00 2 00:04:57 1.00 3 00:05:09 1.00 4 00:05:07 1.00 5 00:04:55 1.00 6 00:05:00 1.00 7 00:05:00 1.00 8 00:05:02 1.00 9 00:04:55 1.00 10 00:04:50 1.00 Note : Actual automatic mile splits form my Garmin, which wou...

Monday Feb 7 AM 6 miles, 42min PM 12 miles, 1:23min, hurdle drills + speed drills Tuesday Feb 8 AM 8 miles, 57min PM 12 miles, 1:13min track workout 6xmile with floating 400rest at 6min per mile 4:48 4:44 4:44 4:42 4:37 4:38 Wednesday Feb 9 AM 6 miles, 42min PM 12 miles, 1:22min, hurdle drills Thursday Feb 10 AM 6 miles, 42min PM 12 miles, 1:25min Friday Feb 11 AM 6 miles, 42min PM 8 miles, 59min, speed drills + strides Saturday Feb 12 17 miles, 1:58min Valentine 3k: 8:12.19 (5th) Slow first 1k. Splits 2:49, 2:40.6, 2:42 Sunday Feb 13 25 miles, 2:52min on Boston marathon course 130 miles This week was sort of a missed opportunity to run fast. Although, I am putting my full attention towards training for the marathon, I feel like I could have "squeezed in" another PR on the track. I was looking to running something in the low 8min range. Unfortunately, the seeded heat was very crowded causing a lot of confusion for the first 1400m which resulted in slow pacing and a lot of run...

Monday Jan 31 AM 7 miles, 48min PM 13 miles, 1:31min, hurdle drills + strides Tuesday Feb 1 AM 8 miles, 60min PM 12 miles, 1:26min Wednesday Feb 2 AM 6 miles, 44min PM 11 miles, 1:15min workout on track wearing flats full mile 4:20.8, target 4:22 (5 min rest) 600 1:37.0, target 1:37.5 (30 sec rest) 600 1:33.8,target 1:34.5 (3 min rest) 400 63.6, target 65.0 (30 sec rest) 400 61.3, target 63.0(3 min rest) 400 63.7, target 65.0 (30 sec rest) 400 60.8, target 61.0 Thursday Feb 3 AM 6 miles, 43min PM 12 miles, 1:22min, hurdle drills Late PM massage Friday Feb 4 AM off (sick with a cold) PM 15 miles, 1:41 w/ 8x3min long hills with 3min recovery (7 miles) Saturday Feb 5 AM 14 miles, 1:37min PM 5 miles, 35min Sunday Feb 6 21 miles, 2:03min Charlie Spedding 20 mile fartlek (1:56:34) + 1 mile cool down (7min) splits: 4 miles-----------(24:03/6:01) pace overall: 6:01 8 miles-----47:22 (23:18/5:49) pace overall: 5:55 12 miles--1:10:29 (23:06/5:47) pace overall: 5:52 16 miles- 1:33:53 (23:24/5:51...