Training Plan

	I follow a sixteen week plan, based on the intermediate marathon prep plan I found in Runners World magazine. I built an excel spreadsheet to help me track the miles as well as how closely I was tracking to the "plan" (that's the project manager influence). There's a tab for each race that I am contemplating entering… each with a quick-glance chart to let me know how well it's going. The whole plan requires about 500 miles in the 16 weeks.
The main change I have made is to replace the days marked as "Tempo Runs" with a series of "Yasso 800" repeat runs. They begin in week 4 with just one 1/2 mile sprint repeat and build up each week until I am capable of doing nine 1/2 mile repeats.The whole plan requires about 500 miles in the 16 weeks.
It's been interesting to try and correlate the evntual race performance with the training profile I end up with on each tab. Although there are only 5 samples so far, it seems to be the case that those that have the more disciplined buildup (per-plan) result in good times. In addition, I can say that the "intangibles" – how I feel, how well I recover, etc – seem to be better also.