9:30 a.m. 8 miles recovery run. I had planned to start off with a trial run of my Power of Threes, but my legs were mashed (in a good way) from yesterday’s 20 miles (a 14 and a 6) - the 14 miler included 4 miles of egg shells, which is the likely reason for my legs feeling mangled. So, the Power of Threes will kick start tomorrow morning’s Crazy Cubans, which is a crackerjack workout.
Anyway, The Qwer Old Eegit’s Marathon Method. Here’s the basic outline:
It’s a 3 year plan. Year one focuses on developing 5k and 10k times (14:50 and 30:50 respectively are the goals by September 2013 – aged 48).
Year two (aged – 49) focuses on the half (1:05), while maintaining and developing the 10k (30ish).
Year three is all about the marathon (sub 2:20). I’ll be 50 in the January and I’ll be running a marathon in the September/October of that year - 2015.
Nothing special about that, apart from the fact that it seems to be dragged out over 3 years, when it could be done in 12-18 months. Not so. There are many reasons why I need to take three years and I will explain them over the next few days.
Although the 5k-10k, moving on to the half, before hitting the marathon isn’t revolutionary, I think that the way I will approach the three year goal of the marathon is in fact unique. The devil’s in the detail. I will, however, be drawing on the methods of others and adapting them, as well as throwing in some of my own little Bamisms.
Something to consider is my age and the apparent challenges presented by ageing. I hope to debunk many of these myths – although I do accept performance deteriorates as we mature.
Tomorrow, I’ll look at the ageing 'thing', as it will lead in to the reasons for a 3 year plan and the necessity for ‘egg shells, Cubans, Power of Threes, Cardinal Pillars, and many more unusual forms of witchcraft… 5:00 p.m. 6 miles. Intended doing another recovery run but ended up doing a bit of a progression from easy to mp effort - I was worried about being late for tonight's teaching, where I covered some Heaney poems and the start of The Catcher in the Rye. | 