AWESOME POSTS Mike!!! I need to do that sometime, though I really have a hard time putting thoughts into writing Nice to know I've had a little influence on your running BTW can your inner voice teach my inner voice to be a little more quieter? I have a hard time not listening to it Love watching your progress BTW!!! Soooooooo glad your ankle pain went as quickly as it came! I think our body does stuff like that to remind us how important a healthy body is. I know I definetly pay more attention to mine now then I did a year ago.

Thanks, Pam! I'm normally not very good at throwing my thoughts into writing either - unless I have some sort of structure in mind to write into. Haha on the inner voice. I'm not sure we should talk to much about them - someone might think we're crazy crazier.

Seriously Mike, I didn't mean to poke fun at what you wrote. Everything was very insightful and true, and spoken like a real veteran, and spoken by someone who really wants to improve. Very admirable. That Core Performance book is a lot to digest. Devoting yourself to the entire program really isn't practical for most people. I pick and choose bits of info from it and use those. Maybe you want to focus on just one thing, like the injury prevention section, what he calls "Prehab". I hope you find something useful in there and that I didn't make you waste your $$$.

So I ran my plan last week, which was to get close to 40 miles of running and transition from post-marathon recovery week into all easy running. I ran 40.x miles and hiked 6 miles - so a great week. I'm still loving this cool weather and speed - all my runs were in the 9:30 neighborhood. I had forgotten about Halloween being this week and didn't really plan any taper for this weekend's HM into this week's running plan. I'll have to juggle some of that around to bring down the mileage and open up Wednesday for trick or treating with DD. I've also been looking at the last 6 or 7 weeks of my training coming up to the Cowtown marathon. Pfitz really switches away from tempo running into interval training. I've just been wondering if for someone of my slow abilities if switching the intervals to tempo runs is wise or just leaving them as is. I didn't have any trouble doing the intervals in the last training cycle and actually enjoyed them - just wondering which way would be smarter for me.

Well not sure what your weekly plan is, but how bout taking Wed and Friday off. Is your half marathon on Sunday? If so do just a short easy run on Saturday. Do a nice mid long run on Thursday. Maybe a nice tempo run on Tuesday and a nice easy run today? Course I'm usually clueless. As for your feelings about tempo vs intervals. I really think tempo's will help more for the marathon (just my 2cents) though I really LOVE nice long progression runs!! Anyway hope you have a great week Mike!!! Good luck this weekend!

The intervals are there to make you faster.

The intervals are there to make you faster.

Thanks for checking in Scout. So you think I should leave them in? The 12 week Pftiz plan only has 3 tempo runs and 5 interval sessions.

Thanks, Scout. I haven't had any injuries or pain. And thinking about what you said about "they're in there for a reason", the more I think maybe I should not try to f*ck with the plans until I have some more experience under my shoes.