Decisions, Decisions.................

I was giving it some thought in church tonight, yes in church I think about running at least occasionally and while on runs I often think about God and churches.

Anyway, not the point tonight. I did the math, if I am going to ramp for Olathe on March 29th then I need to ramp my mileage quickly and dramatically. Let's see if I ramp from 10 to 15 a week to 30 a week, I think I will violate the 10% rule by a wee bit. So the choice is do an aggressive ramp on a sore knee and then pack it in for the year (meaning running in pain, not to stop running) or back off on Olathe and target another marathon a month or two later.

By my reckoning I would need to run 10 miles this weekend and then add 2 or 3 every other week or I could just skip the rest weeks.

Plan 1
1/13 - LR - 10
1/20 - LR - 9
1/27 - LR - 13
2/03 - LR - 10
2/10 - LR - 16
2/17 - LR - 11
2/24 - LR - 19
3/02 - LR - 12
3/09 - LR - 22
3/16 - LR - 15
3/23 - LR - 12
3/29 - Marathon

Uhoh....plan 1 might be a bit painful and I normally try to avoid adding 3 every other week to my long run, let's think what else could I try, how about if i skip the rest weeks and do a steady ramp?

Plan 2
1/13 - LR - 7
1/20 - LR - 9
1/27 - LR - 12
2/03 - LR - 14
2/10 - LR - 16
2/17 - LR - 11
2/24 - LR - 19
3/02 - LR - 12
3/09 - LR - 22
3/16 - LR - 15
3/23 - LR - 12
3/29 - Marathon

Hmm....plan 2 might work, so I think I will go for 7 this weekend and see how it goes. The ramp is still aggressive and I won't have a PR day but I can probably get to the finish line and then think about the Trail Mix 50k. You gotta have dreams. It would be a heck a lot easier if it was March versus January, maybe I will get lucky and we won't go sub-zero.

Or I could just back off and target another race...........but which one?