Target: Perth Marathon 2012

This week marked the first 'pre-training week' for Perth 2012

With a goal of sub 2:50, I realised I needed to change something after 2 years of stagnation in marathon progress despite shorter race times improving.

To that end I decided to get some help, and enlisted the assistance of a runner who's training approach and results I admire greatly. For the sake of anonymity we'll call him CookieGuy.

I have 3 weeks before the program begins in earnest - time to get the body accustomed to running 100km a week.

This week was not quite that far - 96k. A fairly insipid Mona on tues pm in 30+ degrees was about the only quality.

Sunday morning I ran the point Walter 16k with Clown in 4:13s. We eased into it then gradually wound up the pace - his hammy seemed to cope pretty well with some time out. i realised this was about as far as I want to run in the Saucony A4s. (4k splits - 17:14/17:03/16:37/16:09)

Hopefully I'll post weekly over the next 4 months.

Monday 10.06k 0:45:21 4:30 Bold Park

Tuesday 20.19k 1:28:42 4:24

5:35 PM Evening 2.58 0:11:53 4:37

5:11 PM Afternoon 5.26 0:20:01 3:48 Mona fartlek

5:00 PM Afternoon 2.26 0:10:23 4:35

6:18 AM Morning 10.08 0:46:25 4:36 Bold Park

Wednesday 11.20 0:50:00 4:28 treadmill

Thursday 10.91 0:50:03 4:35 Bold park

Friday 13.12 0:59:30 4:32 Bold Park

Saturday 11.35 0:51:20 4:31 Incl 6k barefoot

Sunday 20.00 1:27:40 4:23

8:14 AM Morning 3.98 0:20:14 5:05

7:00 AM Morning 16.02 1:07:26 4:13 'race'

This Week 96.83 7:12:36 4:28