2014 Chicago Marathon - 10/12/14

Here is a page dedicated to my second marathon! My first, in 2011, was an AWESOME experience, but it was S-L-O-W (5:26). This year, with 2 years of Jonathon Roche's Bootcamp under my belt, I am kicking my training up a notch. Ideally, I'd love to run it in 4:30. Realistically, I hope to run it in 5:00.

JR's program (my morning workouts) are 3 30-minute Intervals Workouts and 2 30-minute strength training Workouts per week. I sub one Interval Workout for Running Intervals. The rest of the week, I do BC in the AMs and my scheduled training runs in the PMs. Lots of times, Sam accompanies me some or all of the time. He's my running buddy!

We'll see where this takes me. I am hoping I won't get injured like I did in 2000. I'm seeing a PT every 2 weeks or so and she's working on the scar tissue on my ITB, so hopefully my left knee won't get messed up per usual.

Woo hoo! Chicago, here I come!

Marathon Training Schedule

Week	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
13	Intervals	Strength 5x3m tempo	6x2m IW 4 mi EP	Strength	Intervals 3m EP	12 mi	Rest
12	Intervals	Strength 5x3m tempo	6x2m IW 5 mi EP	Strength 5m RP	Intervals 3m EP	16 mi	Rest
11	Intervals	Strength 5x3m tempo	6x2m IW 5 mi EP	Strength 35 min tempo	Intervals 4m EP	12 mi	Rest
10	Intervals	Strength 5x3m tempo	6x2m IW 4 mi EP	Strength 6 mi RP	Intervals 3m EP	18 mi	Rest
9	Intervals	Strength 5x3m tempo	6x2m IW 5 mi EP	Strength 35 min tempo	Intervals 4m EP	14 mi	Rest
8	Intervals	Strength 5x3m tempo	6x2m IW 6 mi EP	Strength 7 miles RP	Intervals 4m EP	16 mi (last 4 mi RP)	Rest
7	Intervals	Strength 5x3m tempo	6x2m IW 5 mi EP	Strength 35 min tempo	Intervals 4m EP	12 mi	Rest
6	Intervals	Strength 5x3m tempo	6x2m IW 5 mi EP	Strength 5 mi RP	Intervals 3m EP	20 mi	Rest
5	Intervals	Strength 5x3m tempo	6x2m IW 5 mi EP	Strength 40 min tempo	Intervals 4m EP	12 mi	Rest
4	Intervals	Strength 5x3m tempo	6x2m IW 5 mi EP	Strength 35 min tempo	Intervals 3m EP	20 mi (last 4 mi RP)	Rest
3	Intervals	Strength 5 mi RP	5 mi EP	Strength 35 min tempo	Intervals 3m EP	12 mi	Rest
2	Intervals	Strength 4 mi RP	4 mi EP	Strength 4 mi EP	Intervals 3m EP	6 mi	Rest
1	Intervals	Strength 4 mi RP	Rest	Strength 4 mi EP	Rest	2 mi EP	Race!

Credit goes to  Christine Luff, Jonathon Roche, and my PT (Heather North).