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ran 6.5 with ‘the group’ today. My knee started hurting pretty bad, but I blame it completely on the fact we were trudging through a couple inches of snow. Meredith is gearing up to start her Pfitz training next week, and I asked her how she was going to do the speed workouts. I honestly think I’m not going to try to fit in a Pfitz plan for Boston; it just doesn’t seem worth it, trying to get in those speed workouts (knowing how I feel about the treadmill), plus I know I’m not going to set any great record in Boston anyway. I think I am going to just focus on mileage: I enjoy a nice easy slow run just as much as anything fast, and if I can get used to 40 or 50 miles now, it won’t be a big deal when I start on a training plan with some more difficult workouts.

I also just read about ’embeddded circuit training’, which is a running warmup, cardio between exercices at the gym, and a running cooldown. Sounds pretty close to what I’m doing now, except I’d have to add in the cardio between machines. Sounded intriguing, and arguably that’s where I could push myself to get my heart rate up – for only 30 sec or a minute at a time.

So if I try to get to the gym 3 days a week, that’s at least 6 miles of running. I think our weekend long runs are generally going to be 10+ (lately I’ve been BAD but I think we’ll all be more motivated soon), and then if I run 6 miles three mornings a week, I’ll be right up there. Nothing too ‘hard’, just getting used to the mileage..

we’ll see…