Increasing Miles

Well, with a well deserved week off after the half marathon (just fewer miles, not really a week off), it was time to increase the miles on our Saturday runs. First was a 15 mile run. We did well. We've heard a number of opinions of how to train and run the marathon. Since neither one of us has ever run one, we are not sure which is correct, or which will work for us. We would like to run the whole marathon, do it in under 4 hours, and live to tell the tale. Its funny to think that we were dreading running 13 miles and now we plan to double it. It is very helpful to have someone to run with. These long runs are difficult anyway, but finding ways to pass the time with out a buddy would be excrusiating.

So we plan on taking our training runs slower than we will for the marathon to save a little for the actual event. We also plan to take a few breaks during the long runs to get fluids back as well as gel up for energy, since we plan to walk to aid stations and make sure we (or I) don't spill all the contents of my cup on my shirt. Right, wrong, or otherwise, we plan on sticking with this and next week we'll be jumping to 17 miles. Yikes! Gotta run.