Summary of Marathon #3 Training

Rest day on the schedule today.

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Here's a quick recap of the running that I did in order to prepare for the Flying Pig on Sunday:

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18 weeks, 570 miles not including the marathon itself.  It sure seems like a lot of mileage just to run 26.2 miles, doesn't it?  I pretty much used the Hal Higdon Intermediate plan with some slight modifications.  I also ran several races including a 10k and two half marathons.

I did not do the back to back Saturday/Sunday runs he suggested but I did do four runs in a row and even sometimes 5 runs.  The back to back Sat/Sun runs just did not seem to work for me when I first started training for my first marathon so I switched things up.  It seemed to work well for my second marathon training and I believe it worked well for this one as well.

My next marathon, in October, I had planned to switch to the Intermediate II plan but I'm rethinking this as it's really a lot of miles and I'm not sure I'm up to it -- especially since I'd have to run 2 - 10 milers during the week before work at some point in the training.

Have  a great day and....Keep Running!!!!