Well, it happened again. I felt burnt out in the summer, so I took a bit of a break, and I never could quite come back from it. It was hard to get motivated, when there was no race on the horizon.

The real wake up call came a few weeks ago, when I had to claim my place for the spring Kentucky Derby Marathon. It will be a stupid staggered start race, but it will provide an official time, and that's nice. Except that I'm in a shit form with low MPW, so I better start training!

I've done two weeks of regular running now. MPW is still low: 31.5 for last week. But it isn't outrageous, if I'm OK with Pfitzinger's lower mileage plan. I could potentially start that plan after this week.

Race day: April 24.

April 18: Race week.

April 11: Week 1.

April 4: Week 2.

March 28: Week 3.

March 21: Week 4.

March 14: Week 5.

March 7: Week 6.

February 28: Week 7.

February 21: Week 8.

February 14: Week 9.

February 7: Week 10.

January 31: Week 11.

January 24: Week 12.

Obviously, there is not enough time to do 18 week plan, so the 12 week must do.

It is probably best to just do mileage until then. I can do 35 miles this week, and then

January 3 - 9: 38.5 (5.5 per day)

January 10 - 16: 42 (6 per day)

January 17 - 23: 46.5 (6.5 per day)

The goal can be decided later, but for now, it seem like a 3:10 has a good chance to be a BQ for an old fart like me. That's a 7:15 pace, which looks entirely doable. I can probably even train a bit faster. We will reevaluate this in January, when race training starts.