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It has now been almost two weeks since my last marathon. Aside from a few spots on my feet (gotta love blood blisters) I think I'm 100% recovered. I actually felt fine by the third day after the race and David and I went on a run on the fourth day and I've run a few times since then. I've done mostly easy 3 mile runs which are a nice break .... but I can't seem to remember to eat less now that I'm not logging 35 miles of running a week so I'm anxious to get back on a training program before I turn into a chubbster. Oink!
So the next marathon coming up for me is the Marine Corps Marathon on October 25, 2009 in Arlington, VA. I am extremely excited for this race since I will be running it with David and it will be his first full marathon! I've gotten him and a couple others to train for a half before, but he will be the first person I've been able to encourage to do a full. I'm so excited! Did I mention that already? :o) This race is extremely popular and sells out within the first week that registration is open. We registered on the first day that you could and I heard that by the second day the race was already 70% full! It then sold out a few days after. Whew, glad we made the cut!
I put together a training schedule on Tuesday that David and I are going to follow based on a combination of Hal Higdon's Intermediate II http://www.halhigdon.com/marathon/inter2.html and Advanced II http://www.halhigdon.com/marathon/advanced2/advancedII.htm schedules. It's a fairly challenging schedule with three 20-mile training runs.
We've decided to log our miles online at www.dailymile.com.
You will notice my dailymile widgets over on the right side of my blog which will show a countdown to the race along with my recent training progress. Our schedule has us start training on Monday June 22nd! (Somewhat inconvenient for me since I will be in France that week, but I'll find a way to get my runs in.)
Our goal is to finish in 3 hours and 50 minutes! Stay tuned for updates on our 18 weeks of
training!
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