ADD BACK

The foot is still bad, the legs are deader than dead, and now my lower back is gone. All I can do is rest a few days and see what happens, today will be day 2 of no running and tomorrow day 3. On Saturday or Sunday I'll try a long run and if I can't do it with something better than a survival test San Fran is out.

RUH ROH

To quote the great Scooby.

As always happens to me in marathon training a foreign substance is in the fan blades. The long runs have gone bad, the speed work has gone bad, and I can't hold weekly mileage. My biggest problem right now is pain in my left foot. It has all the traits of Morton's Neuroma but who knows. Too date my longest run is 18 which isn't bad if I can get back on track, but right now, THE FOOT and the dead legs need to recover.

RUFF

TUESDAY SPEED WORK

1ST GOOD TRACK SESSION IN 2 YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1st of the long prep runs for SF

Dead legs from the start, heat, phew. I was OK for 13 or so but the last 5K wow. I hate to more or less bonk on a training run but things happen, particularly on the first long run on a hot day. Bless my hydration pack or it would have been worse. The rest of this week will be one speed session, a couple of recovery runs and some days off to regroup. Then Sunday a 10K,and back to building milage for 3 weeks.

Training

Now I remember, its not the marathon that's tough (B.S.) its the training. Actually its all hard for me, but I'm still on track. My long run is now 14 1/2 and speed sessions are 3 miles of work (5 800's & 2 400's). I want to get up to a 20 miler and be able to do a Yasso 800 workout with 9 weeks to go. If I can end up with a few 20's and Yasso workouts by game day plus some 40 - 45 mile weeks I should be OK.

Danbury 1/2 - April 11,2010 - Kaboom

Didn't feel good, should have stayed home. Oh well. At 6 miles I though about picking up the pace and shooting for sub 2 hours. At 8 1/2 I was dehydrated and headed toward a bonk. Call it a bad day and move on.

Bunny Boogie, Darien Ct, 04/03/2010

24:47; better than the 25:12 disaster of last year and a minute off the 23:45 of 2 years ago. I ran on fairly dead legs so not a bad effort, things are looking up. Sunday I did a hilly 13.35 from the house and it was a struggle the last 2 1/2 but not monumental. Next Sunday is the Danbury 1/2 and then the training starts for real for San Francisco