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McMillan Custom Marathon Plan: Week 4 Day 5

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Week 4, Day 5
Phase: Pre-Marathon
Workout: 30 to 40 minute easy run

No problems tonight with my well deserved easy 30 minute run. Legs were a bit stiff from yesterday’s challenging workout, […]


McMillan Custom Marathon Plan: Week 4 Day 1

Week 4, Day 1
Phase: Pre-Marathon
Workout: 35 to 50 Easy Run
Purpose: Build Endurance
Comments: This is a good week for recovery. You may want to run on the low end of the mileage range and take an extra day off.

Three weeks of Base Phase training behind and so far so good. Legs still feel good, I haven’t […]


McMillan Custom Marathon Plan: Week 3 Day 7

The final day of Week 3 is already here - where does time go eh? Not a very challenging day today, but an important recovery run none the less.

Week 3, Day 7
Phase: Base
Workout: 40 to 60 Easy Run
Purpose: Build Endurance

Garmin 305 was still not working this morning (more on that in a future post perhaps), […]


Push Ups, Abs, McMillan

Thought I’d continue the trend of combining all three workouts into one post. Hope you don’t mind…
I’ll start with the end of Week 4 Hundred Push Upsexhaustion test. Basically I just needed to perform as many push ups in one go as possible which would determine the column I’ll be following in Week 5 of […]


PUMA: Push Ups, McMillan, Abs

Thought I’d combine all three workouts into one post tonight. Hope you don’t mind…
Let’s start with Day 3 of Week 4 of the Hundred Push Ups plan:
Required: 30, 22, 22, 20, at least 29
Actual: 30, 22, 22, 20, 30
No problems completing tonight’s workout, which means I’m safely through Week 4 and soon able to move […]


McMillan Custom Marathon Plan: Week 3 Day 1

Week 3, Day 1
Phase: Base
Workout: 30 to 50 Easy Run
Purpose: Build Endurance

Working from home today so planned on an easy lunchtime run to save time this evening. However, it was storming outside, the rain was lashing down and I was in no mood to risk getting struck by lightning. Luckily I have a treadmill option, […]


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