The Road to Qualify for the 2010 Boston Marathon

The first half of 2009 will be spent training for the Fredericton Marathon (May 10) and establishing a good base fitness for swim and biking. The Fredericton Marathon will be a qualifying race for the prestigious 2010 Boston Marathon. In order to qualify I will have to run a 3:20 Marathon. This is a lofty goal for me considering my PB Marathon is a 3:33 and I am coming off a serious lower spine injury that I have been rehabbing since early September.

Lofty is good....actually the 3:33 Marathon was in 2007 and I have seen durability and speed improvements in my running since that time (i.e. 2007 run 4 times a week and 5 km TT 20:10, 2008 run 6 times a week and 5 km TT 19:07). Also, last year I ran a 1:31:30 Half Marathon on the parts of the same course. All that being said it will be a hard race and a tough challenge. Hoping for nice conditions.

I started a 24 Month Marathon Training Program in late November of 2008. Presently, I am in week #6 of the program and this is where I will begin with my weekly training/nutrition log entries.

Mikey