Monday, August 18, 2008

First Day of Training

I kicked off my training today for the next marathon. I'm planning on running the PF Chang Rock-n-Roll Marathon in Phoenix on January 18th. The Carlsbad Marathon is Jan. 25th, but Sharon's birthday is the 26th and I don't want to take up her weekend with my marathon.

Anyway, I ran 3 miles today and the knee is a little sore. I didn't run at all last week on my vacation. Hopefully it just a little weak from not keeping up my training.  I'll run again on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday this week. Normally I'd run on Thursday instead of Friday, but I have my 2nd Coaching Network Session Thursday morning at 6AM. So running is out on Thurs.

It looks like my brother will be running the marathon with me, which I'm really excited about. I think we're running together on Saturday. Now, if we can just get my dad to run with us we'll be set.

4 comments:

D.Lake said...

Sweet! Dude you're training soon. What program you doing?

I plan on doing the Non-runners training...since that is what I am! I start on the 16 week training at the end of September!

Looking forward to the upcoming runs.

Heidi said...

I guess church is going to be in Phoenix in January??

You guys are going to do awesome.

Prayin for the knee, ALOT!!!

sarahmichele82 said...

Well you'll have a place to stay during your Phoenix run.

Mike Slagle said...

I'm doing Hal Higdon's Novice II plan. I like running 4 days a week. I modified it a little at the beginning because I'm starting a little early. Basically I just added in my base miles (3 miles a day/4 days a week) for the first few weeks. Then adding a mile or two a week until the end of Sept. when his 18 week program would start.