Marathon Training
I've never actually run a marathon. I've done a handful of half marathons, and I've signed up for a marathon and even collected the t-shirt at the race expo for that race, but still the longest I've ever run is a hair over 13.1 miles. I was signed up to run the Rock 'N Roll DC Marathon in March of 2015. I even had a nice book that laid out an entire training plan for me. It was my first time actually training, as opposed to just going out for a run. I had a really good baseline fitness, so I felt good about the plan. I based my plan on a 39:47 10k I had run in December of 2014. I was about two weeks into my structured plan - the first week of doing an actual workout when I got injured. I was doing Speed 12x400m @1:30 on a treadmill at my office gym before work. I felt good doing the workout, but as soon as I stopped running, I had a throbbing pain in my knee. I ran once more that week, then took a week off, then I tried to string together a few consecutiv