A New Plan

With racing on hold for the foreseeable future (with a few low-cost exceptions thanks to SteveQ), and my motivation to run slowly returning, I've come up with a plan that that may keep me sane for the next few months.

Instead of training for a specific race, I'm going to rebuild my base.  I'll start at 20 miles next week, then increase that by 10-15% per week until I get to about 50mpw.  This build-up phase will take between 2–3 months.  From there, I'll stay mostly constant at 50mpw.

I'll de-emphasize speedwork, but will throw in the occasional fartlek to keep things exciting.  I won't do hill repeats, but I'll stick to my hilly routes (the benefit of living at a local elevation maximum in St. Paul).

At some point, I'll race again, and when I do, I'll switch to a speed phase.  I'm thinking some pseudo-Lydiard periodization here, but whatever happens after my "base phase" will be determined by whatever race I do, and I've got no clue what that will be.

Not my ideal 2011, but I'll try and make the best of what I've been dealt.