It's a proven fact that I need five months of 30+ hours of training per month to race at the level I expect of myself. Ideally, a couple of them toward the end should be in the 40+ hour range.

I have my first two 30 hour months in a long while under my belt and guess what I feel like a fucking runner. I'm two months into a five month project.

I have run all of my real PRs at 150-154 lbs. Therefore the target is 152.  I am 9 lbs away as of 7/5/2012.

The summer of mikey is on, motherfuckers. Stay tuned.

I'm alive.

It's a proven fact that I need five months of 30+ hours of training per month to race at the level I expect of myself. Ideally, a couple of them toward the end should be in the 40+ hour range.

 

I have my first two 30 hour months in a long while under my belt and guess what I feel like a fucking runner. I'm two months into a five month project.

 

I have run all of my real PRs at 150-154 lbs. Therefore the target is 152.  I am 9 lbs away as of 7/5/2012.

 

The summer of mikey is on, motherfuckers. Stay tuned.

 

I'm alive.

Holla! 

This - Plus a lot has to do with confidence - There have been many a year there is no reason to think I could run a marathon at a certain pace from shorter races, but I truly just believe that I can ... So I do.  It's been a while since I felt this cockiness / confidence.   I need to reclaim it in the next 13 weeks when I go for my goal race (50 miler)

The best way to become a mentally tough runner is to believe that you're a mentally tough runner.

 

--Ryan Hall

It's been a while since I felt this cockiness / confidence.   

Not gonna lie; me too.  I don't care what my recent race times say. Well, I care, but not for the purposes of --oh for heaven's sake, you know what I mean.   

Today, I slung my bag over my shoulder on the way to work, cause, you know, a runner never knows when he'll get his chance to roll. My work clothes, now goofily fitting me kind of wrong, I thought, man, I am a runner. 

I am a runner, btw. 

Ah [Philly, Philly] take me in! 

Wesley Korir on his training:

What did you do in training and how much did experience contribute to your five minute plus drop in time when five months later you won the Los Angeles Marathon in 2:08:24?

WK: Whenever I think about it I can’t put a finger on what I did differently. I just went back home and did what I do on my runs. I don’t have a program or schedule that says what I must do. I just wake up and go for a long run or go for a tempo run. I just kept doing the same thing – but faster. I do many of the same things as in college but the long runs are faster and faster and the tempo runs are faster and faster. For those first two marathons and all of my marathon races since then, I would go for 20-mile runs in training and try to reduce the entire time. I don’t believe I need to run one mile faster while another may be slower – the cumulative time is important. So every time when I do a 20-mile long run I might decide to go one or two or three or even five minutes faster to prepare me for my next marathon.

GCR: Since you were new to marathon running, were you paying attention to your split times in those first two marathons or were you more concerned with relative effort and running comfortably fast?

WK I would run for effort. My coach always told me to see how fast I could make it comfortable. In a marathon if you can take off only one second a mile you can run a big PR.

Let’s discuss your current training starting with your base building phase. Since you are racing two marathons per year, for how many weeks or months do you focus on building strong mileage and what is the highest you can sustain comfortably?


WK I don’t pay attention to miles. What I am running now I can’t tell you because I don’t keep records. It’s more based on effort. What is more important to me is the effort at which I run every time. I listen to my body. Sometimes I will run the entire week without taking a rest day; sometimes I’ll take one day or two days off. I might feel like I am so tired that I need to take some days off. So there is an up and down with how much I run. When it is two weeks before a marathon I still train like usual the whole week. In my current training two weeks ago I took no days off and ran 16 miles on one day and 20 miles on another day. Then last week I took two days off. Now this week I have already taken one day off. It goes up and down according to how my body feels and I’m trying to enjoy the training. I don’t do anything crazy.

Read more: http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=4681768#ixzz20MF0lj4s

As if. If you don't anally count your miles, derive inordinate pride from a 322-day streak, and have a lot of different colors in your training log, (AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST - WEAR A GARMIN) you're not a real runner.

Lance, if I run them too fast, it annoys my coach.  The times he praised my easy runs were when they are properly "on the easy side of easy."    As far as I understand from him, it is absolutely "easy means easy and it's all about prepping for the workout."

I lack that control, a bit.