Welcome to the blog! Although certainly not on the same scale as your group, my wife and I help lead worship at our little Baptist church out here in Utah.
From Sasha Pachev on Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 16:29:55
Tim - welcome to the blog. To help you better with your training, it would be very useful to have some more information about your running. What has been your running experience? Did you run in college or high school? If yes, how fast? What kind of training have you been doing? How often do you get injured, and what usually brings it on? What are your times in shorter distances?
From Sasha Pachev on Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 14:15:31
Tim - to follow up on your post with the running history. It appears that you could easily run at least a 3:45 marathon if you got some miles in. Probably 6-8 months of good training will get you there. The idea is to get in as many miles in as possible at a very comfortable pace. I would recommend to have a regimen of running 6 days a week, each day no less than 4 miles to start with. If you feel good or have the time, go more, otherwise still make sure you get your 4 miles in, does not matter how slow. For the long run, go to 8 miles, and if you are feeling strong, go 10. Once you get use to this routine, no pain, no threat of injury, then you should start increasing the daily mileage gradually but keep everything in the same proportion - e.g the long run should not be much more than the double of your shortest daily mileage. As your mileage increases, if anything, the weight of your daily mileage is what should be increasing vs the long run. E.g. for me a long run is 18 miles, but my daily minimum mileage when training hard is 13.
Are you still out there and running. Noticed that it has been a long time since you were on the blog. Hope everything is well for you.
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