I’ve developed my plan and with this week almost complete (due to my bike race on Saturday), I’ve kept to it!<br/><br/>I tried to put it in a format that would be embeddable in this here post, but it was going to be a lot of effort. Click <a href=”/training_plans/mara_train.htm” target=”_self”>here</a> to see the export from <a href=”http://www.microsoft.com/word/” target=”_self”>Word</a>.<br/><br/>If you are planning something any time soon, take a peek at my calendar and you’ll easily understand why I likely won’t make it; this training is going to rule my life until the end of October, at which time I’ll take all of November off, and hopefully get away from life for a week or two.<br/><br/>Since I have a <a href=”http://www.elifelist.com/list.php?action=homepage&amp;user_id=528&amp;all=1″ target=”_blank”>life goal</a> or running the <a href=”http://www.bostonmarathon.org/” target=”_blank”>Boston Marathon</a>, and the shape I’m in right now says that qualifying is a real possibility (if I get serious serious), I’m going to be setting my goal for 3:10, which is <a href=”http://www.bostonmarathon.org/BostonMarathon/Qualifying.asp” target=”_blank”>qualifying</a>; 7:15 mile pace (actually 7:17 since you can get 3:10:59, but I’m not going to shoot for that). It seems quite lofty at this point, but I’m gonna give it my all the next few week. I should know if I’m capable or not by the end of August, at which time I’ll sit back down, gather my thoughts, and decide if I need a new plan… Hopefully I won’t be injured by then! If I don’t attain the 3:10, I’ll still be perfectly happy; it is a heck of a goal AND even if I qualify, I’m not sure I’ll be up for getting back in to marathon training plan so soon (it occurs in April, which gives me just November and December to take it easy).<br/>