AIDS Marathon Training Meeting

I feel like my training is back on track.  It's a good thing too because if I hadn't had a couple good runs this week, the horror stories about dehydration and over training at the Orientation Meeting would have really freaked me out. The two program reps running the meeting were both experience marathoners.  They both ran their first marathon with the training program.  One has gone on to run others and just ran Boston in about 3 hours - WOW.  I'll be excited if I run the Marine Corps Marathon in under 6 hours.  They kept telling stories they thought were funny about what not to do.  Some were funny but I was wondering if they were really recruiting or not.  I still feel pretty confident. I am looking forward to starting the group runs.  I am also a little leery.  I have never run with other people and never thought I would be into talking while running.  I guess we will see.

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
XTraining  Day Long walk or circuit weights at the gym depending on the weather.	Running  Day Run 30-45 minutes *	XTraining  Day Circuit weights, Yoga Class or Swimming	Running  Day Run 30-45 minutes *	XTraining  Day Circuit weights, Yoga Class or Swimming	Rest Day  Rest up for long run	Running Day LONG RUN*  First Group Run 3 miles -- 5-May 4 miles -- 12-May 5 miles -- 19-May 6 miles -- 26-May 7 miles -- 2-Jun 8 miles -- 9-Jun 10 miles -- 16-Jun 12 miles -- 23-Jun 6 miles -- 30-Jun 14 miles -- 7-Jul 7 miles -- 14-Jul 16 miles -- 21-Jul 8 miles -- 28-Jul 18 miles -- 4-Aug 9 miles -- 11-Aug 20 miles -- 18-Aug 10 miles or 5k -- 25-Aug 10 miles -- 1-Sep 22 miles -- 8-Sep 8 miles or 5K -- 15-Sep 8 miles -- 22-Sep 24-26 miles -- 29-Sep 8 miles -- 6-Oct 8 miles -- 13-Oct 8 miles -- 20-Oct Marine Corps Marathon -- 28-Oct
	* indicates AIDS Marathon Training minimum requirements.  One long run for endurance and two shorter maintenance runs per week.

*editors note: By running a measured course in May, I discovered that all of my pedometer mileage was off for Feb/Mar/Apr by .3 miles for every mile. For example, on April 22th I thought I ran 5 miles but actually ran 5 + (.3*5) or 6.5 miles. I left the logs as originally written.