Race and Long Run Plans

Well the snow and ice still remain, but I managed to get out for an easy 5m recovery run at lunchtime today. Conditions on the canal towpath were actually a lot better than they have been in several weeks.

I've also been trying to nail down some race and Long Run dates, and have come up with this set of key runs and milestones:

- Race day - 25/4/10
- Med run (<12m) - Sat or Sun 18/4/10
- Med run (<12m) - Sat or Sun 11/4/10
- Med run (<12m) - Sat or Sun 4/4/10
- Last Long run (24m) - Sat 28/3/10 11am
- Northern 12-Stage Relay - Sun 21/3/10
- Trimpell 20 - Sun 14/3/10
- Medium run or race - Sat/Sun 7/3/10
- Long run (24m) - Sat 27/2/10 11am
- Medium run or race - Sat/Sun 20/2/10
- Long run (24m) - Sat 13/2/10 11am
- Yorkshire Vets XC - Sat 6/2/10
- Long run (22m) Sun 31/1/10 11am
- Brass Monkey HM - 24/1/10
- PECO XC - 17/1/10
- Yorkshire XC Champs - 9/1/10

On top of this I will continue with the Wednesday evening Carnegie track session, as well as hopefully an additional Shipley-Leeds (13 miler) journey into work once a week (if and when the towpath will allow some serious running).

Then a couple of easier midweek runs of 6-8 miles.

The other elements of my plan is that I only have 5 long runs, and they are at least a fortnight apart. I think my body needs this - I can't imagine doing a long, hard one every week.

I'm also looking at a 4 week taper - again I think I need this.

I'm looking forward to seeing the plans of the other Spring marathoners who are blogging on here!