Marathon Training and Fun with Group Runs

Week 1 of training went well. Higdon's Advanced 2 plan is underway. My biggest adjustment to the plan is increasing the easy run mileage and the overall mileage per week. I plan to be around 50 for the first few weeks and ramp up when the longer runs get longer.

My week went like so: M - 6m easy T - 4 hill repeats + some easy miles; 6m total W - 6.3m social/easy T - Tempo Run - slowly increase to 10k pace then cool down; 6m total F - 6m easy S - 2m warmup; 5m @ marathon pace S - 10m long run Total = 47ish

Weekend long runs are done with a group in a neighboring town called Davidson. The group is known as the Davidson Area Running Team, or DART. We are known as the DARTers. We have shirts and a Facebook group.

Two of my running friends and I live in a neighborhood called Birkdale. We usually carpool up to the DART runs together. We were known as the Birkdale guys until I posted this on our FB wall: "The Birkdale Area Running Friends - aka BARF - braved the upper 90s for about 50 minutes tonight." And now we are known as the BARFers.

We need shirts - colorful ones for sure. See how fun group running can be?