After a month off, it is time to start up a new marathon training cycle to prep for the Steamboat Marathon June 5th in Steamboat Springs, CO.
Again, I will be using training designed by Arthur Lydiard using a schedule designed later in his life. The big difference will be the 10 week conditioning phase. Instead of doing all the runs at easy aerobic pace, there will be runs at marathon pace and also fartleks thrown in. Everything will still be aerobic. I look forward to the variety this will provide compared to doing almost the same pace each day. To prepare specifically for running in the mountains, will be doing a lot of runs on the biggest hills I can find. Also going to work on strength a bit with push-ups, crunches and pull-ups to build up the upper body a bit. I am hoping to get an indoor spinning bike to get in more aerobic work. I am going to try to start getting myself up a bit earlier in the morning to do a short 20-30 minute run, we'll see how that goes.
I am looking forward to getting back into training and seeing the results. I have the next 6 months of racing planned out and hopefully will set more PRs at all distances.
Have fun with your marathon training for the Steamboat Marathon.
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