The Plan

Today I will start to obey my training plan (called "The Plan" ;-)). The Plan is intended to guide me to a new marathon PR. Last year I clocked in Mainz with a 2:56, intention is to break the club record which is currently a 2:46 clocked several years ago. The Plan consists of 10 weeks of training, usually each week has one long run, one unit with intervalls, and one speed unit. The original plan says to run each day, I will modify it to have these 7 runs in 5 or 6 days. Each week will have a mileage between 90k and 130k, this still seems to be moderate. This is the first time that I am trying to stick to that plan, actually I am not very dilligent and persevere in following a plan for such a long time, usually I can be pretty near to the mileage goal, i.e. from a quantitative point of view but my quality is not as good as it should be (especially these tempo units). But for now everything will change, haha.

The Plan is taken from a book of a pretty famous German runner. He was pretty good in the 80ies. He has a PR of less than 2:10, which means he would beat any current German runner with a healthy margin. His name is Herbert Steffny, he was also a pretty good masters runner in the US.


Let's go.