The marathon was a whole lot of buildup. Though I only followed an 18 week training plan, my training through out the past year has been building towards running the marathon. I've pretty much decided that I will run the NYCM again next year assuming that I'm healthy. [Don't kill me hot sister] While I am incredibly proud of myself for finishing, I think that I have a better race in me. If at first you don't succeed, try again :-)
That said, I'd like to get a whole lot faster first. I think that there are three components to getting faster for me.
1. Get my weight under control. I'm 5'4" - I shouldn't be hanging out in the 140-145 lbs range. I should work a bit on my nutrition to move my weight closer to 125lbs or so. I'm sure that my spine would appreciate it. Ultimately having less of me to haul around would improve my speed a whole lot.
2. Actually do speed work. I was terrified of doing speed work this training cycle. I suffered a nasty ankle sprain in May 2014 and my ankle is sometimes still pissy when I push the pace. Thankfully it is much much stronger than it was and I think that it is time to up my game a bit and do some structured speed work.
3. Do some strength training. A speedy runner friend of mine has said "fix your butt". Now there's probably nothing wrong with my butt, but my ass hurt the most of any of my body parts a few days post marathon... so here's to some ass strengthening :-)
Looking toward these process goals I'm hoping to have some good outcomes. I'll be running a half in January that I hope to PR at. I'll also be running halves in March and May. I'm going to follow Ryan Hall's 10 week half marathon training plan because it has some nice structured speed work built in and the mileage is pretty appropriate for now. That plan will start next week for my half on January 24th. If I'm still not feeling recovered I may drop the very first week of speed work, but I should be doing it for sure in the second week of the plan.
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