The long run

As many  you may know by now, I will be running the Twin Cities Marathon this fall.  I started jogging early last month, but the official training started this past Monday.  The training program starts out slow and builds up over 16 weeks.  Each week I will be running 4 days with the last day of each week finishing with a long run.

I just finished my long run for the week – 5 miles around Lake Phalen by our house.  In college I would regularly run about 3 miles, but 5 miles has always been a tough distance for me to hit.  Now I get one day off and then training starts over again on Monday.