Dear Butterfly princess, I was planning on an 18wk/55 mile Pfitz-ish plan, minus much of the speed work (It will end up being whatever I can handle, so probably won't look like any "plan" in the end). I looked at HH plans (you said you followed these) and a few things bothered me about them. The 20 milers are all 2 weeks apart, and preceeded by MP runs of 10 miles for the most part. I don't like the idea of doing a 20 miler already tired. The other runs in the schedule, well, some are just really short, like 3 or 4 miles. I think I'd be better prepared doing fewer but longer runs with cross-training 2x week. Oh, the one silly thing about Pfitz's plan is the short intervals later on in the schedule. I think he even talks about how pointless it is to do half mile intervals when training for a full marathon, but then includes them in the schedule. Ok, if you are a sub-3 guy I guess. I don't think I'm pushing that hard, but will take your advice and slow down a little. Any veterans want to chime in? I am doing about 30mpw, I had many 40mpw weeks last fall (8 of them). Two years on my feet. Can I build to a 55mpw week (in 8 weeks) when the most I have ever done is 44?

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Hey Tim, you and I are neck-and-neck - I have 2186 for 2007 right now. I wish I could compare that to 2006, but the graph feature will apparently only graph the current year. I may have to go back to the CR log to find out how many miles I had in 2006.