IndianSprings Guy Training Goals & Progress

This will be maintained to show progress against goals until the marathon in April. The plan is to seek maximum distance once a week but cautiously. The maximum of these trial runs will be considered the progress milestones and will be published here.

Month	Distance		Pace		Projected time for 13 mi
	Goal	Max actual mi	Goal	Actual at max distance
Nov	5.	5.8	9	9 mins/mi	117 mins
Dec	7.	8.75	9.2	8.6	112 - big surprise achieved 12-15-07
Jan	8.	10.4	9.3	9.0	Jan 19th - one of two 10 miles runs
Feb	10.		9.5
Mar	13.		9.6
Apr	14.		9.6

I went to marathon.com and used a tool to see what milestones would be neccessary to finish about in the middle of the running pack of any given marathon. Jeff and I would need to finish the full marathon within about 4 hours. That is of course two hours for each half marathon. We can use the table below to guess what our goals would need to be.

Distance	Time mins
5K	26
5M	42
10K	54
10M	89
Half Marathon	120
Marathon	251

I now have upgraded my training program: (Jan 16th)
Mondays: Distance runs
Tuesdays: Recovery runs
Wednesdays: Speed training
Thursdays: Intermediate practice run
Fridays: Strength day. Weights and muscle workout. Short run.
Saturdays: Intermediate practice run. No speed!
Sundays: Rest