I’ve signed up for the Glass City Marathon in Toledo, Ohio, and I’m on week 4 of 18 in my slightly modified Pfitz 18/55 plan. The marathon is on April 28, 2019.
Monday: 9 miles with 5 @ HM Pace. It was stupid cold outside, I’m not sure what the actual wind chill factor was, but my winter gear does not go down to 1F anyway. Ran speedwork on the dreadmill, which made me feel slow. At one point, I sped up the ‘mill, but my watch slowed the pace it was telling me by a few seconds. 9 miles (give or take inaccuracies in a GPS watch tracking distance without a GPS satellite) in 1:22:41 (9:11 min/mi pace).
Tuesday: Recovery 5 miles. Waited until after lunch, when the temperature went up to the upper 30s to run, and kept it in the park. The path was snow covered. I wore my trailrunning shoes, which worked well in the snow. 5.05 miles in 42:28 (8:24 min/mile pace).
Wednesday: 10 miles. I went to bed wondering where I could run 10 miles without getting dizzy (such as in the park). When I woke up and looked outside, I saw that most of the snow was gone because it was raining. So I thought maybe conditions in East Fork would be good. Nope. There was a lot of hard pack snow-ice that made it slippery, and it wasn’t in a consistent location. The Batavia-Williamsburg Bike Path was a sheet of ice. I started running camping loops and did what I could. 10.02 miles in 1:35:55 (9:34 min/mile pace).
Thursday: recovery 5 miles. I had to go to Indianapolis and back, so I ran in the afternoon. I stopped by the park (the township offices are there, and were fortunately open when I got there – I used the restroom and changed in the building. The path was icy. I spent a lot of time off the path and running where the pavement was dry… or at least not icy. For dealing with those conditions, the pace was not bad. 5.02 miles in 43:49 (8:44 min/mile pace).
Friday: 16 miles with 10 at M pace. Given yesterday’s ice and the fact that I really wanted to end this week right, I ran on the dreadmill. I ordered a foot pod earlier in the week, an it still hasn’t arrived. So the pace was a mess. My dreadmill claims I went 15.1 miles, my watch 16, I felt like I was at 17 and change, and my wife claimed I smelled like I ran 20 miles. 16 (ish) miles in 2:26:18 (9:09 min/mile… maybe).
That door was WONDERFUL to look at for 2+ hours! 
Analysis Paralysis… no wait, that’s just my legs after 15 – 20 miles!
Overall, that’s 45 miles for the week. It’s been a week of extreme weather – ice on Monday, good Tuesday and Wednesday (weather-wise, the running was icy), cold Thursday and really cold and icy Friday.
Plank For Your Beer!
During #bibChat, a fellow runner named Michael from Nebraska brought up the idea of planking for our beer. It was the motivation I needed to move from thinking about doing planks to actually doing the planks.
I’m not going to keep taking selfies of this, but I’m going to stick with the planks.