Easy run. 6:03 am, 33° F, 83% humidity, winds calm. Everyone is back in school this week and so I had to start my run earlier than Lindsay and Allie start on Mondays, so I went out by myself. In retrospect, I'm glad I went out earlier. Explanation forthcoming. I felt really sluggish today. I did feel a little better for the second half of the run; however, it started snowing in earnest when I had about two miles to go. That's why I'm glad I started earlier. If I had started at the later time, almost all of my run would have been in the snow, instead of just a 1/3 of it. I looked at potential training schedules for myself over the weekend. I'm currently doing whatever I want during the week and then doing Michelle's long runs with her on Saturdays. I'm thinking about running the American Discovery Trail Marathon on Labor Day. There are 12 weeks between the marathon that Michelle is training for and the ADT marathon. I've been thinking about doing the Hudson plan that I did for the Ogden Marathon a couple of years ago. It's a 20 week plan. Rather than cut it down to 12 weeks, I thought I could overlap the first 8 weeks of it with the last 8 weeks of Michelle's plan and do my plan on week days and her plan on Saturdays. However, to do that I would have to start my plan 3 weeks from now and the first week of that plan would be about 46 miles. I ran 28 miles last week, and so I'd have to ramp up to 46 over the next 3 weeks, and I've already been increasing my weekly mileage fairly significantly over the last few weeks. So I'm not sure if this is a wise plan. I think I'll look into some other alternatives and just kind of play it by ear. However, I do think it is time for me to go from running 4 days/week to 5 days/week. I've been doing 4 days/week consistently for several weeks now. So to that I end, I plan to run an easy 3 tomorrow. AP: 10:20. Splits: 10:30, 10:32, 10:47, 10:06, 10:25, 9:54, 0.61 @ 9:56.
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