So, awhile back I was having some issues with my marathon training schedule. I had decided to follow Higdon's novice marathon training program. Then I started to read 4 Months to a 4 Hour Marathon by Dave Kuehls and have decided to adapt some of his training advice into my schedule in hopes of gaining a bit of speed. He breaks the training down into 3 parts:

1. endurance phase- 8 weeks the focus is on endurance with a secondary emphasis on leg turnover
2. stamina phase-6 weeks
3. taper phase-3 weeks

The endurance phase includes a supplemental workout of quarter- mile repeats. So for the next 6 weeks I will be doing track workouts on Wednesday and the rest of the time follow the schedule from the Hal Higdon's training guide. So, this morning I met up with Terry at the track to do the 8 x 400's on the schedule. According to the "plan", I'm supposed to do the repeats between 2.05 and 2.15. I had an extremely difficult time keeping to this pace, I kept going too fast.

1. 1.43
2. 1.47
3. 1.55
4. 1.52
5. 1.51
6. 1.51
7. 1.50

Not sure how to find the right pace, but I'll try again next week. I had a blast doing the workout and it was nice to switch things up a bit. The beautiful, 65F, blue sky weather didn't hurt any either.

On the way home ,I determined that at this point I have only 2 goals for the marathon:

1. continue to follow my training schedule
2. finish in less than 4 hr 32 min. ( 4hr 15 min would be nice :o))

Wait one more:

Enjoy the Race!!