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One nice thing about training for this year’s Glass City Marathon (Toledo, OH) is that the 18 week training program started the last week of 2008. This is nice because it helps to think of 2009 as a fresh start with a new training cycle. I’m pretty excited as it looks like there will be others training for the same race (or the Half) all together! So far we’ve had 3 people confirm that they’d like to do the training, which brings me to the reason for this particular post…

SPEEDWORK!!!

I know, I know, speedwork is a necessary part of the training that increases overall running speed and endurance, thereby decreasing the risk of bonking mid-race (see columbus marathon 2008 for jeremy), and I didn’t make it any easier on myself by not looking at what the program calls for and making my own workout up (read: went overboard). So the workout we were supposed to do was like 4x800s, what we actually ended up doing…(notice the decreasing pace times as the distance decreases…for the most part)

Interval Workout # 1 (2009)

Luckily, I felt good during the workout so it wasn’t as bad as some other workouts I’ve participated in. Here’s to a new year, new training cycle & hopefully a good racing season…

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