Goals for May 2008

Looking back at April I see that I did about 95% of my training runs, and didn't miss any of the long runs. One of the goals I had was to get some weight training in, but I think I lifted once all month. I suppose my excuse was the fact that we had three major snowstorms in April (over 4 feet of snow) and I needed to do some heavy shoveling. That counts, doesn't it?

Over the last several months I have been adding distance to my long runs every week and have increased my total weekly mileage from 15 in February to about 24 at the end of April. The next six weeks or so are a little bit of a plateau in my training. I'm planning on keeping my mileage at about 25 miles per week through May. Once mid-June hits I'll start ramping up again with the October marathon in mind.

Here are my plans for this month:

• Alternate long runs of 10 miles and 7.5 miles starting the second Saturday in May.
• Increase the distance of midweek runs slightly, so that on my 7.5 mile weeks I run 10ks on 2 midweek runs.
• Weight train 2x per week.
• Do some bike riding if the weather finally permits. This may replace one short run during the week.
• Total weekly mileage peaks at 26.