Image by Getty Images via Daylife The first comment from my post yesterday referenced the post-marathon down-cycle. You can find hundreds of posts at the Runner’s World Forums that talk about people going into serious depression after completing their marathon goals. There really is something wired in us that has a hard time adjusting to the total focus pre-marathon training and goal setting to the wilderness afterward. After running the NY Marathon and qualifying for Boston, both major lifetime running goals I had a really hard time staying motivated afterwards...
A Twitter person has been posting their run training data regularly. I noticed a particular pattern that I used to follow and felt like I need to contribute some feedback.
He seems to have settled into a pattern of running 4 or 5 miles @ 6:45 min/mile pace. This too, is how I started. The thrill of running faster and faster each week is exhilarating, and it worked for a while, but I hit a plateau. I was gutting it out, working harder and harder, but not racing faster.
Let me pause to say you can easily find run training...