I am a mortal, therfore I run.

First I would like to thank everyone for their input. I really appreciated the different opinions.

I have been going through many different marathon plans. My goal is just to finish. I have no goal time in mind. After checking out Cool Runnings, Runners World and others, I seen a book on my shelf. The first running book I bought. If was John Bingham and Jenny Hadfield's book Marathoning for Mortals. I read this book cover to cover and used it to train for my first half-marathon.

When I opened it and looked at the marathon training schedule, I found that I was right on track as far as my long runs were concerned. I am trying to rearrange the schedule to fit in my 1/2 coming up on the 28th of this month and to try to get the 6-day training schedule down to a 4 or 4 1/2 day schedule. Their 6 day plan has 1 day of cross training included, I have a hard time finding any exercise to use for cross training.

I will also split my midweek longer runs. It is very hard to fit in runs over 1 1/2 hours during the week.

Things are moving in the right direction.

After a doctor visit today, I now have a puffer for exercise induced asthma. I was reading an article on EIA when I realized that I have many of the symptoms. I do not have severe asthma. It is actually quite mild.

This may help as my runs as they get longer.