New Training Plan

Hey everyone...so for Christmas my wife got me the book, "Marathon", by Hal Higdon. I had read a few chapters before the injury, but when I hurt myself I didn't think I would want to read it for a while. Well...I was wrong. I picked it up last night and read a few chapters and now I am even more excited to get back to running. My knee is feeling better each day, so I cannot wait until I can run on it again.

With that said, I have made a few changes to my training schedule. Before the injury my training plan had me running 4 days a week for 15 weeks. Now, I will only be running 3 days a week for 12 weeks, with 2 days a week of biking. I know I am sacrificing precious running days, but I think that riding the bike will be good for my knee and will help me out more in the long run. I also had a goal before my knee to finish the marathon in under 4 hours and 30 minutes. While I would still love to do it in under that time, I will err on the side of caution and have my goal be to finish the race, no matter how long it takes me. I don't know, but I just feel like this new training schedule is a lot more relaxed, less focused on the time goal, but still will challenge and prepare me to finish the marathon.

Here is what my new training schedule looks like.

Keep Calm and MarathOn