A Two Step Plan to Get Running Again

Tonight I put a marathon training plan into my calendar. This doesn't mean I will run a marathon in early May, but it means I might. Step one is always to make a plan. Step two is to stick to that plan.

Step one is a pretty easy step. I just take my usual marathon plan and copy/paste it into the calendar to end on the race day that I think I'm aiming for. Step two is considerably harder because with marathon training there's more to success than just committing to the plan.

I battled injury last year and battled motivation since then. I'm hoping that the training plan will help with the latter. I'm also hoping that running this training plan won't lead to any reoccurrence of the injury issues I had last summer.

Other than blogging about the training here, I'm going to start using my status.lol a bit more and specifically I'm going to use it to post my current training status. We'll see how that goes, but I think to start I'll just mirror the Garmin training status as it changes in the app.

Off we go...hopefully this is going to be a good start to a good year of running.