October 9, 2008
It’s week 21 of my 24 week marathon training plan. This is the probably the hardest week of the entire 24 weeks, as it includes:
Any easy paced 9 mile run (done Tuesday)
An interval workout (done Wednesday)
An 11 mile run, with the middle 7 at half-marathon pace (scheduled for tomorrow)
And the highlight – a 20 mile [...]
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September 23, 2008
In the training plan I’m following for the New York Marathon (the plan in Matt Fitzgerald’s book, Brain Training for Runners), there’s a huge emphasis on running your training runs at specific paces.
As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve just entered the peak phase of my training for the marathon. This phase incorporates [...]
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