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Officially REGISTERED for the Dublin Marathon! I figured it would be a good motivator since 18 weeks of training kicks off Monday! 

I’m using this week as a pre-training week since I’ve been out of the training game for moooooonths. 

  • Sun: 3 miles
  • Tues: 3.25 miles
  • Wed: 4.25 miles
  • Thurs: 5 miles (projected)

Been running a song then walking a song, then maybe running 2 songs, walking a song. Right now I want to comfortably push myself, but not push myself to the point of not wanting to run. Plus I was to minimize injury and fatigue. 

Marathon training round 3: European adventure edition!

Preparing

I just mapped out 18 weeks of full marathon training for the Dublin Marathon that woulds start on June 22. 

I HOPE to run Dublin this year, but I have a few life things that may throw a wrench into that plan. The only (and last) Marathon I want to do is Dublin, so if it’s not this October it’s next. 

I don’t want to train to not run it/run another race. So hopefully I will have a better sense of the next few months soon. I’m running sporadically 2-3x a week at low mileage, but I want to pick things up slightly so I can be ready for 18 scheduled weeks of running 4x week. 

This weekend will be my 6th year running Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure’s Race For Hope DC 5K.

My running “Idol” David Cook ran in 2009 for his brother (who ended up passing away the night before the race that year, but David ran anyway). In 2009 I donated and told myself I was going to train to run it myself in 2010. 

January 2010, I started running and getting health. I ran in 2010, PRed in 2011 and have been back every year since. 

  • 2010 – I went to PA to visit my friend Kelly and we came down to DC to run together
  • 2011 – I ran solo, but had a bunch of friends come to DC to support me
  • 2012 – I was a new VA/DC resident and ran with my friend Sarah who came to visit
  • 2013 -My sister ran it with me
  • 2014 – I ran solo, but found David Cook on the course and captured an epic running selfie with him
  • 2015 – My boyfriend, T, will be joining me this year. I pretty sure he is going to beat me (damn natural athletic ability) based off our run yesterday, but I’m excited to be with him for his first official race ever (especially since it was my first official race ever)