Today was a marathon training long run

So Brad was supposed to go out for his multi hour/mile bike ride with this group that gets together early on Sunday mornings. EARLY is key with training on the roads here, it keeps you from getting squished. I had a long run planned for today. Anyway, he overslept I guess because when I came down trying to shake the sleep out of my head at 7, he was still here. He said he did indeed oversleep, could have made it, but didn't want to get out of bed (I am divine to snuggle with don't you know?) and rush. He was all excited that we could do a long run together. His coach had him at a two hour run sometime today too.

Typically, I like running with Brad. We did have this one time, once upon a while ago, that wasn't so good. What started the whole argument, I don't remember and the best part was he didn't realize I had turned around and started running in the other direction because I was sick of arguing. When he did catch up to me, we wound up having a pretty good laugh about it. It was one of our most memorable runs and if we are running together and not getting on so well, we say it's one of those runs where I am going to turn around. Believe it or not, we do kibbutz back and forth like the old married couple we are when we run some days. I believe it expends a lot of energy that I don't have to spare when I run. I keep my Ipod on pretty loud on the days when I can tell we won't be saying anything remotely useful to one another. But anyway...

I decide I am doing the Galloway marathon training plan. It is good for training in the heat, which it was New Dehli hot today, and preventing injuries. At my level of running I run for 8 minutes on the Galloway plan and walk for one, run for eight, walk for one. I did this for 1 hour and 45 minutes. I have to say I had some gas left in my tank, to coin a phrase, but it was blistering hot and I felt like it would be in my best interest to stop and cool down. I did and I stretched a ton. I think I am a swami when I stretch when I am all warm like I am after running. Holy cow, I am flexible then.

I was pleased enough with the results today that I think I will run like this with my long run next weekend. I am hoping to run a 4:30 marathon, and it can be done on this plan, so I think I will stick with it at least until the heat of the summer is over and I can run in the cool.