Sunday, August 24, 2008

NYC Marathon Take 2!

Here is my training schedule for this year's marathon


Some things:

I'm vagabonding it this year. Even though I did enough qualifying races, I missed the registration deadline to take advantage of that (yes, I'm a dumbass). So I'll just show up and run the route. There's really nothing stopping you. I might even still get a medal at the end.

I put in more aggressive paramters from my training last year (I lied to the system, sayng I've been running 16-20 miles a week when I've been really sleeping a lot and not exercising).

Changes from last year:
I remember how how my legs gave out last year so, besides running harder I'm going to:

I am going to run 3 times a week instead of 2 like last year. The third workout will start as easy runs, but eventually include a lot of drills and hill repeats.

I'm really going to do strength training (legs, core and abs) weekly.

Concerns:
Last year, I gave myself 12 weeks to train, this year only 10. But, a month ago I was in very good shape (for the triathlon) so even though I've been chilling last month, I think I should still have a decent base. Oh well, we'll see what happens.




Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Really Weird

I can only stare at them, I'm too weirded out to eat them.




Friday, August 01, 2008

The Food Pyramid

Even the snack cakes here are weird: