Chugging along

My sprint triathlon is coming up this Sunday and after that, I plan to begin hardcore marathon training. As I might have mentioned in an earlier post, I've run several marathons, but not find myself to be on somewhat of a plateau. The main thing I've heard to improve is to increase the mileage. Starting next week, I need to begin raising my weekly mileage to 50+ and hopefully 60 by October.

That is an extraordinary feat, in my opinion, and it'll mean running at least four days/week, plus a speed workout on the track. I've been training a bit with the Pacers running group, but so far I'm not reaping the benefits of these "group" runs. I say "groups" because I always end up in the middle and alone- too slow for the speedy group, too fast for the run/walk group. *sigh*

Speed workouts are bound to help me- they can't hurt! Except that I hate running the evening. Last Tuesday I skipped the group workout because it was 90+ degrees, and did the same track workout by myself on Wednesday morning. There's a big different between 67 and 92 degrees!!

I find it disturbing that I'm getting tired out by these "long" runs. "Long" as in 12-14 miles. How will I get back up to 26.2?? Well, in all fairness, yesterday ended up being a total of 17+ miles for me, so that's not too shabby!