I plan to run my first marathon in January and I put together the schedule below. I know it's unlikely, but I want to BQ in my debut. Please provide feedback. I should have a base of 50 miles/week by the time I start. Peaking at 70 seems scary now so I'll go by feel as each week goes by. MP = Marathon Pace (7:25/mile)

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Week	M	T	W	T	F	S	S	Weekly Total	Week Ending
17	Weight	9	11	5	9	5	15	54	9/2/11
	Training	4 @ Tempo	10x100 Strides
16	Weight	8	12	5	9	5	16	55	9/9/11
	Training						8 @ MP
15	Weight	11	13	5	9	5	15	58	9/16/11
	Training				4 @ Tempo
14	Weight	9	14	5	11	6	18	62	9/23/11
	Training	10x100 Strides
13	Weight	9	14	5	12	6	18	63	9/30/11
	Training	5 @ Tempo					10 @ MP
12	Weight	8	12	5	10	5	15	55	10/7/11
	Training	10x100 Strides
11	Weight	10	14	5	11	7	21	68	10/14/11
	Training	5 @ Tempo
10	Weight	10	14	5	11	6	20	66	10/21/11
	Training				6 @ Tempo
9	Weight	10	15	6	12	7	16	67	10/28/11
	Training					6x100 Strides	12 @ MP
8	Weight	9	9	6	10	8	15	58	11/4/11
	Training		6x800 @ 5k Pace			10x100 Strides
7	Weight	10	15	6	12	5	22	70	11/11/11
	Training				7 @ Tempo
6	Weight	9	14	10	5	9	18	65	11/18/11
	Training	5x600 @ 5K Pace		6x100 Strides
5	Weight	10	15	10	12	5	18	70	11/25/11
	Training	6x1000 @ 5k Pace					14 @ MP
4	Weight	9	14	6	5	9	17	60	12/2/11
	Training	5x600 @ 5K Pace		6x100 Strides		8k - 15k Race
3	Weight	6	11	14	8	6	20	64	12/9/11
	Training		5x1200 @ 5k Pace		8x100 Strides
2	Weight	7	12	5	5	6	17	53	12/16/11
	Training	8x100 Strides		6x100 Strides
1	Off	7	4	8	5	6	13	43	12/23/11
		8x100 Strides		3x1600 @ 5k		8x100 Strides
Race		9	7	5	5	4	26.2	54	12/30/11
Week			2 @ MP			6x100 Strides @ MP

Just curious where you got your program or if you made it up. Anyway it looks like basic bread and butter marathon training. If it was me I'd add a super-easy 3 - 4 on the day you do weights, I think your legs will feel better for it.

It's Pete Pfitzinger plan. I use to run 3 days a week and worked my way up to 6 day.  I may get up to 7 days per week someday

Ah, I wondered. I'll be using Daniels this Fall (vs my usual "Just Run As Much As Possible") and it looked sorta familiar. I guess Pfitz vs. Daniels is not really all that different. Looks like you'll be doing more strides and 5K pace runs, while I'll be doing more tempo and MP runs. It's all good.

 

Congrats on going from 3 to 6!

 Yeah...It's like Daniels. The main difference I see is the interval done early in the Daniels plan I was going to use and finishes with the tempos. Pfitz is reversed. I have a few MP runs and I now scheduled 3 tune-up races (1/2, 25K & 30K).