Track and Field Blogs - Chad Johnson

Only two weeks and six days to go. I've now had 7 consecutive weeks of mileage over 120 a week. I've been handeling the training for this marathon better than usual and my milege has been a little higher. Hopefully that translates to a faster time. Last week I was able to test my fitness a little. We got out of the cold weather and went to Virginia beach for the half marathon. We were able to do this only if we didn't race and ran marathon pace. I felt nice and relaxed and ran 1:06:48. A good sign considering I ran 2x4 mile at 5:00 pace only two days before that. Next time I post hopefully I'm a 2:13 marathoner.