Tentative training schedule

OK, I've created a tentative schedule for my training runs for the October marathon. This is of course assuming that my ankle doesn't cause me big problems when I start getting into distances of a few miles or longer. If that happens, I probably won't be able to run the marathon. But I'm planning for the best!

I'm not bothering to make a schedule for my short mid-week runs, because I learned last summer that I won't follow one. Also, I don't know yet what my work schedule is going to look like, and that will influence how many mid-week runs I'm willing to do; if I have to be at work early enough that running in the morning means running in the dark, I just won't do as many runs. Running in the dark while clutching my little mace sprayer is not one of my favorite things and is tough to drag myself out of bed for.

So this is just for the long weekend runs. I'm thinking I'll do them on Saturdays like last summer, although since I'm not running with a team this year, I could always switch to Sunday if need be. I'm hoping to work up to 22 miles as my longest training run, which is 2 miles more than the longest training run last year with TNT. I don't know if that will turn out to be feasible, especially since I'm starting with such low mileage due to the injury. But if I can do it, I think I will thank myself for it on race day. 6.2 miles between the longest training run and the race length felt like a very large gap last year.

6/5/: 2 miles
6/12: 3 miles
6/19: 5 miles
6/26: 6 miles
7/3: 7 miles
7/10: 8 miles
7/17: 8 miles
7/24: 10 miles
7/31: 11 miles
8/7: 12 miles
8/14: 12 miles
8/21: 14 miles
8/28: 16 miles
9/4: 17 miles
9/11: 19 miles
9/18: 14 miles
9/25: 22 miles
10/2: 12 miles
10/9: 8 miles
10/16: rest, because tomorrow is race day!

So, 2 miles this Saturday, which will be about twice what I did today and I think will feel challenging.