Making a New Plan & Testing the 3:30 Marathon

You may recall that I had a plan for carving nearly 13 minutes from my marathon PR.  The bulk of this is conditioning.  60-65 mile weeks, hill work, and some speed work.  However, I needed more than that.  Thankfully, Chicago is not supposed to be hot like Oklahoma City or Miami.  Guess what?  Chicago is predicting near record warm lows and highs for this Sunday.  The low is 67 and the high is 85.  Sounds like Miami to me.  I’m not ready to give up on getting to 3:30, but it just got about 4 minutes (the help I was expecting form just having cooler weather) harder.