I’ve developed my plan and with this week almost complete (due to my bike race on Saturday), I’ve kept to it!

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 here to see the export from Word.

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.

Since I have a life goal or running the Boston Marathon, 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 qualifying; 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).