It's the end of the year, which means that training for Boston is starting! Only yesterday I decided on a training program, which will again be Daniels' running formula, which I also used for New York (and with good results). I have been pondering between it and the Pfitzinger program, which I did last year, but I like Daniels a bit better because he has more interesting challenging workouts, and relatively more tempo runs (which I feel are profitable for me). Daniels' program only specifies two workouts per week, and leaves it up to you to plan the intermediate easy runs. So, for today I started of with 10 miles of easy running. For these runs of 8-12 miles I often run to the Schenley Oval in Schenley park. The Schenley Oval consists of a track and a flat loop of 1 km. I run there (3.4 miles), do the loop a couple of times, and then run back home. The first test will be in two weeks, when Steffi and I will run the Run to Read half marathon in West Virginia (here is my report from last year). That was good fun last year! I don't think I will update the blog after every workout, like last year, but I will update it irregularly, including reports of races. I am looking forward to training!
