Posted by Derek Lee-Wo on October 28th, 2007 in Training
I had sent an email to Pete Pftizinger last week requesting permission to publish some of his training plans from his Advanced Marathoning book. Well, I heard back from him today and he has given me permission to publish up to 3 of his plans. This is great news for me and I’m sure it’s great news for some you out there that use my tool.
I have chosen 2 of the 55-mile plans and one 70-mile plan, the 18-week one. I want to leave the two 55-mile plans up since that is what most people would use, but I’m open to suggestions with regards to which 70-mile plan to leave up.
I would encourage anyone that is using his plans to buy his book. It’s a great book and he goes into a lot more detail on the actual workouts than I have listed here on my website. (Please note that I am providing links back to Amazon, but I am not an affiliate and I don’t make any money if you order from Amazon. It’s just a convenient place to link to for you all to buy the book 
Posted by Derek Lee-Wo on October 27th, 2007 in Cowtown, Marathon, Training
This week was a great week and start to my marathon training. The weather has been great which I think is a huge contributing factor. All I need now is for the next 17 weeks to be like the last 2 weeks!
I think I finally have my diet under control…at least for 5 consecutive days so far. In the recent months, whenever I tried to control my diet, I would only last 2 days. What I started to do was to track everything that went into my mouth. In the past, I would track the major meals, but end up eating a lot of smaller snacks that I never bothered to track.
From now on, I will try and summarize my week’s training in a table as follows:
| Day |
Plan |
Actual |
Avg Pace |
Comments |
| Sun |
|
6 Mi |
9:46 |
The plan actually starts on a Monday so today was a rest day. |
| Mon |
|
7 Mi w/ 10×160m |
9:26 |
The weather was great so I decided to do Tuesday’s run today instead. It was 55F when I ran |
| Tue |
7 Mi w/ 10×100m |
3 Mi |
9:43 |
Recovery run instead of a rest day |
| Wed |
|
9 Mi |
9:54 |
Did Thursday’s 9-miler today. Felt great for the first 7.5 miles. Took 3 short walking breaks in the last 1.5 miles |
| Thu |
9 Mi |
|
|
Rested today after 7 consecutive days of running. |
| Fri |
|
5 Mi |
9:33 |
|
| Sat |
4 Mi |
2 Mi |
9:55 |
Recovery run. No real running benefit. I justwanted to burn a few calories to help with my weight loss |
| Total |
20 Mi |
32 Mi |
|
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Posted by Derek Lee-Wo on October 22nd, 2007 in Training
Those of you that used my training plan generator to create training plans will notice that they are no longer available. I was contacted by Hal Higdon who requested that I remove his Spring Training plan I had on my website. I have removed it, and to avoid any future issues with the Pftizinger plans, I have also removed those.
Posted by Derek Lee-Wo on October 20th, 2007 in Races
I just signed up for my next race, the Dallas White Rock Half Marathon on Dec 9th. By the time the race comes around, I would have completed 7 weeks of my marathon training. I would be a couple weeks shy of the mid-way point, but it would be a good time to assess how my training is going.
I don’t have a specific goal as yet as that would depend on that first 7 weeks of training, but it would be nice to break 2 hours.
Posted by Derek Lee-Wo on October 20th, 2007 in Training
This week has been a one of the best running week’s I’ve had in a long time. Except for my marathon week and the week I did a long 20 mile run, I ran the most miles I’ve run in several weeks and I did it with runs of just 6 miles or less.
I ran 32 miles and I ran every day except for one rest day.
The best part of the week were my last two 6-mile runs where I did them both without walking at all. It has been several months since I last ran anything more than 4 miles without taking a walking break.
This is just the kind of week I’d like to have as I start my next round of marathon-specific training this coming week. The weather has been cooling down nicely which is also providing a much needed boost in my confidence.
