Revamping my Marathon Training

Note to self:

Article "11 most common mistakes in marathon training"

Note #3
The key problem, though, is that long runs cast a shadow over subsequent training, making it difficult to carry out high-quality training on Monday through Saturday (the days in between the standard, Sunday, long run). With a long run every weekend, the leg muscles are always trying to recover from the impacts and abuses of Sunday's effort at the same time they're being asked to carry out Tuesday's high-speed interval workout and Thursday's red-hot hill session. That just doesn't work!

It's small wonder that weekly long runs increase the risk of injury for marathon trainees; the muscles are simply never given enough chance to recover from the prolonged exertions of the weekend. A far better strategy would be to carry out the long run every other weekend -- or even every three weeks. This would still allow a marathoner to learn how to run long, and it would permit much higher-quality training during the weeks that don't have a muscle-numbing long run on the prior Sunday.

I think this has been a big problem of mine. Not enough recovery time between long runs......making even the short runs difficult. I'm going to make a definate change here.

I think I was pushing to reach this goal too quickly. I'll have to plan this out more carefully. I like the speed training day, hill training day, and cross training day-----long runs every 2 to 3 weeks.....I'll have to ponder over which I'm going to try.....I could alternate that even......hmm

I'm excited to discover what my main problem was.....I think this is it. That's half the battle, is simply figuring out what the mistake is!

I feel much better now. My goal is to have my new goals and training plan set up by this week-end.