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2019 Boston Marathon Infographic - Week 2

2019 Boston Marathon – Week 2

This week, there were two “something of substance” workouts in my training schedule. On Monday, I ran a tiring but gratifying interval workout. Yesterday, I completed a long run that was speedier than usual and but felt comfortable!

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2019 Boston Marathon Infographic - Week 1

2019 Boston Marathon – Week 1

Following a month of running very sporadically after the 2018 New York City Marathon, I completed my first week of training for the 2019 Boston Marathon! I’m following the Advanced Plan in Hansons Marathon Method this training cycle. I only had one “something of substance” workout.

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Hansons Marathon Method

My 2019 Boston Marathon Training Plan

The 2019 Boston Marathon is on Monday, April 15th. For this training cycle, I chose the “Advanced” plan from Hansons Marathon Method by Luke Humphrey as my foundation. The schedule is 18 weeks, which made my start date December 10th.

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2018 New York City Marathon - Banner

2018 New York City Marathon

Scroll all the way down to the end for the tl;dr version. Prologue I started training for the New York City Marathon in July using an 18-week training plan from Advanced Marathoning, Second Edition by Pete Pfitzinger. At the time,

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2018 NYCM Infographic - Week 17

2018 New York City Marathon – Week 17

Only two workouts this week as my marathon taper started in earnest – a 17 mile long run on Sunday and 3×1 mile intervals on Thursday.  As the temperature continued to drop, my training paces followed suit.  I also took

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2018 NYCM Infographic - Week 16

2018 New York City Marathon – Week 16

According to my training plan, I started my taper for the marathon this week!  Sunday’s long run was my last 20 miler of this training cycle.  Thanks to the cooler weather, my training paces dropped significantly.  But, I suffered some

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