Plan and the goal - London - 75 days to go

As of right now, the goal is the London Marathon on Sunday April 23rd. I'm 15 weeks into a training plan that began the week after the Marine Corp Marathon in Washington DC. The aim for London is to run as close to a 2:30 marathon as possible. That’s holding myself together at 5:45miles for 26.2 miles. As of right now, I'm gonna need some sort of magic taper for my body to suddenly find that easy enough to do for it to be a reasonable goal. I still have 10 and a bit weeks of training to go, 75 days, and a collection of long runs and races and tempo & track workouts so it's not like I'm running it tomorrow. But then it's not like it's getting any further away...

I've had a bunch of things (acting mostly) in my way during the evenings which have now cleared as the show I was in has closed. Therefore I have more time to sleep and more time to run in the evenings rather than desperately cramming a run into an elongated lunch hour.

Short term - I'm going to focus on getting the miles in, adding a tempo workout, speeding up the second half of the Saturday long run (slr). I'm always motivated enough in a race situation to push myself so those are always good workouts. I care significantly less about where I finish and more about the time I finish in(that sounds like a cop out - okay, I suppose I care about both but I'm hardly going to win the Olympics so it's who turns up on the day isn't it...).

What I'm looking at over the next couple of weeks - 22-23miles run this saturday, tempo run monday night on trail, tempo run wednesday night on track, GW Marathon Relay next sunday (I think I'm taking the last section which is ~10miles).

I dislike the present dot based blog format. I'm not too sure why I writing a blog except to record all of this rubbish so I can look back when I'm older and wonder how on earth I was running that much.