I've spent most of the past 3 summers preparing for the Grand Rapids Marathon which is scheduled every October. The first year went very well for training. However, an injury in year 2 prevented me from running, and I was quite ill before year three and on my way to a crappy run. Despite the fact I run the 10 Mile Crim each year as well, I started looking for a spring time event that I could plan for. The Fifth Third River Bank run is every May; however, I couldn't get excited over an overcrowded 15 mile event.
Luck is on my side apparently. 2010 brought the announcement that a marathon will be hosted in Kalamazoo the week before 5/3rd. Part of the run also goes through Western Michigan University's campus as well. Other parts of the run are roads I ran while working at WMU. The event is still about an hour away, and it is also scheduled on Mother's day, so it is not a definite plan yet. But there is hope to having two marathons on the schedule for the year. At any rate, I've decided to begin training again. I'm officially 18 weeks away from the event, and I have already kicked off training, so this is the start of week 1. I'll post the details of the overall plan as well as week 1 plan and results here soon. With it being a snowy and freezing week, I'll be doing mostly treadmill running to start.
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