This page is a history of my road to the Chicago Marathon on 11 October 1998. Previous visitors (does anyone ever actually come here twice?) will notice that the page has been reorganized with only “interesting” diary entries provided and the progressive data given in a table on this page. Please note that this is not a training plan, but rather a log of what I did. If you read the diary entries, you’ll find that a lot of what I did was dictated by circumstances completely irrelevant to any training plan.
The training log
| Week | Weight | Long Run | Long Run Time | Marathon time at that pace | Rest of week walk/run distance | Bicycle distance | Fast Mile Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/12 | 235 | 0.38 | 0:02:40 | 3:06:19 | |||
| 1/19 | 235 | 0.50 | 0:04:05 | 3:33:58 | 15.25 | ||
| 1/26 | 232 | 0.75 | 0:06:19 | 3:40:40 | 20.00 | ||
| 2/1 | 230 | 0.75 | 0:06:09 | 3:34:50 | 15.75 | ||
| 2/8 | 233 | 0.88 | 0:07:26 | 3:42:35 | 20.00 | ||
| 2/15 | 233 | 1.00 | 0:08:10 | 3:33:58 | 28.00 | ||
| 2/22 | 232 | 1.12 | 0:10:18 | 3:59:53 | 13.25 | ||
| 3/1 | 230 | 1.25 | 0:11:37 | 4:03:29 | 28.50 | 8:03 | |
| 3/8 | 227 | 1.50 | 0:13:42 | 3:59:18 | 16.25 | ||
| 3/15 | 224 | 1.75 | 0:17:44 | 4:25:30 | 28.00 | 8:12 | |
| 3/22 | 225 | 2.00 | 0:21:47 | 4:45:22 | 24.50 | ||
| 3/29 | 225 | 2.50 | 0:29:11 | 5:05:50 | 20.00 | 20.0 | |
| 4/5 | 226 | 3.00 | 0:29:41 | 4:17:47 | 22.50 | 12.1 | 7:52 |
| 4/12 | 224 | 3.50 | 0:34:18 | 4:16:46 | 25.50 | 50.5 | |
| 4/19 | 225 | 2.00 | 0:19:45 | 4:18:44 | 16.00 | ||
| 4/26 | 224 | 26.50 | 40.4 | ||||
| 5/3 | 223 | 21.50 | |||||
| 5/10 | 222 | 2.90 | 0:32:17 | 4:51:40 | 26.00 | 11.1 | |
| 5/17 | 221 | 3.00 | 0:32:44 | 4:45:52 | 07.50 | 11.3 | |
| 5/24 | 220 | 3.90 | 0:43:22 | 4:51:20 | 20.00 | 61.1 | |
| 5/31 | 221 | 3.90 | 0:45:30 | 5:05:40 | 20.50 | 29.6 | |
| 6/7 | 220 | 5.90 | 1:04:46 | 4:47:36 | 12.75 | 26.6 | |
| 6/14 | 219 | 5.10 | 1:00:00 | 5:08:14 | 21.50 | 14.4 | |
| 6/21 | 219 | 3.90 | 0:36:40 | 4:06:19 | 28.25 | 29.5 | |
| 6/28 | 218 | 5.80 | 1:12:51 | 5:29:05 | 30.25 | 07.5 | |
| 7/5 | 220 | 7.20 | 1:28:39 | 5:22:35 | 20.75 | 18.8 | |
| 7/12 | 220 | 23.00 | 38.8 | ||||
| 7/19 | 217 | 5.90 | 1:15:00 | 5:33:03 | 23.25 | 06.2 | |
| 7/26 | 217 | 12.40 | 2:23:59 | 5:04:13 | 20.00 | 06.6 | |
| 8/2 | 220 | 14.75 | 35.8 | ||||
| 8/9 | 220 | 4.00 | 0:49:33 | 5:24:33 | 19.26 | 12.7 | |
| 8/16 | 217 | 05.25 | 25.6 | ||||
| 8/23 | 215 | 17.00 | 3:50:36 | 5:55:24 | 10.75 | ||
| 8/30 | 19.50 | 0.9 | |||||
| 9/6 | 6.00 | 12.2 | |||||
| 9/13 | 10.00 | 1:58:19 | 5:09:59 | 6.00 | 20.6 | ||
| 10/11 | 220 | 26.20 | 6:22:06 |