Two years and marathon trainning

As I was doing my 10k workout today, I realized that that this blog is now two years old.

My first race with the ipod/nike system took place in 25/09/2007, and since then, 232 more races where uploaded to the nike site, making it over than a hundred per year.

As for competitions, my main goal in 2007 was just to participate in short length races, but as time and kilometers passed, I realized that I do have a good potential for long distance running. Work related fatigue kept me away from a consistent training discipline, and that’s my main challenge for the forthcoming two months. Reason? I’m going to give it a try at Lisbon Marathon in December 2009. The course is easy, it’s in my hometown and I have a full pair of months to be prepared.

After packing miles for the last month, my main concerns now will be to focus on long runs, nutrition and mental training. Weekends (preferably mornings), will be reserved for those 20 miler workouts and week days for faster workouts, aiming to increase lactate threshold and speed training. I’m not going to stick to specific running schedule, but will try to fit my workouts whenever I have free time.