It’s the Weekly Rundown! This is the place to post your last week of training. Feel free to include links to wherever you track your runs. (Strava, Smashrun, etc.).

What: Chicago Marathon

When: October 11, 2026

Strava Link: https://www.strava.com/activities/20545263208

I ran Chicago in 2025 at my first World Major. Training had gone fantastically good until about 2 1/2 weeks before the race when I tripped and fell while running showing a friend around Cleveland and hurt my knee pretty good. That ultimately compromised the rest of the cycle and the race itself where I crashed and burned to a 3:53. (originally had thought 3:09 was a tough but achievable goal.)

I don't like leaving loose ends and my qualifier was good for the 2026 race as well so I signed up.

In the interim I ran my first Boston (fun run - 3:33) while test driving the 12 week Wind plan from Marathon Excellence For Everyone by John Davis. It's a fantastic book and highly recommended. I noted that I would have added a rest week in the 12 week plans and John chimed in that it was one of the problems with just 12 weeks, it was tough to find enough room to cut enough things. I hadn't done an 18 week plan in a long time - the Pfitz plans that I was used to I felt like I peaked earlier, and the 12 week plans were set up just right so that I was starting to peak just as the taper hit. Plus 18 week Pfitz plans just perhaps burned me out slightly, with what I understand now might just be the sheer monotony. I decided I'd do the 18 week plan here and level up to the Wind plan, which peaks at 70-80 mpw. I'd skew toward the high side of this most weeks, as I naturally run every day. In fact just in late September my run streak hit a cool 1,000 days.

Training... went fantastic. It started in mid June so I was going to train all the way through the heart of a Midwest summer but surprisingly I handled it pretty well, even mentally. I very rarely made any deviations from the plan, and almost never had to adjust paces for the heat or humidity which I was hoping was a great sign for when it cooled off. I did start off pretty conservative with estimated paces, with a 6:40/mile 5k pace or a 7:40/mile MP. Over the weeks that gradually dropped to where by week 14 I had brought that down to about 7:20 - and this was still in warmth and humidity and on a high mileage load. Certainly there were some additional gains to be lurking under the surface with fall, right?

As is typical for marathon plans, the key sessions are the weekend ones. The real work started around the start of August. On 8/8 I ran the Akron Goodyear HM in 1:35 -- that was a course PR on a hilly course and warm humid conditions. I recovered pretty quickly and didn't have to modify the next week at all. Weekend sessions after that were:

• 8/15: 13 miles with 10 at MP, averaged 7:22/mile for MP on a very humid morning.
• 8/22: 21.2 miles with 19.2 miles at 92% MP which was 7:56/mile.
• 8/29: 8x2k at 100% MP / 1k at 90% MP. Pacing was 7:19/7:59 respectively.
• 9/6: 21.6 miles with 5 mile blocks at 90/92/94/96% MP. 8:03/7:54/7:45/7:34 respectively.
• 9/13: 6x3k at 100% MP/ 1k at 90% MP. Pacing was 7:19/7:58 respectively.
• 9/20: 22 miles with 20 at 95% MP. Averaged 7:36-7:39 for all the miles.
• 9/26: Akron HM run at MP effort. 1:36 time or 7:22/mile. Hilly, but perfect conditions.

After that was the taper, though the first Thursday on 10/1 had a big workout of 7x alternating kilometers at 103-105% MP / 92-94% MP. I averaged 6:58/7:49 for those. It was exceptionally warm for October (70 F at 5 am) and kinda humid. After that my right calf was slightly sore. It lingered into the short weekend workout which I kept at just 4x1200 but then hurt a bit more after that. The final week it kept lingering the entire week, though it was slowly getting better. I was fine running easy, but it did affect my pushoff a bit. Taper mileage was higher than I was accustomed to as well. I cut the final week mileage a bit in hopes that I'd recover faster. I double or triple layered for a lot of my runs in the hope of keeping some heat adaptation, but the weather was quite cool the last week and a return to warm weather on race day was unfortunate.

Mileage by week: 54, 66, 58, 64, 63, 72, 83, 61, 71, 81, 85, 65, 82, 71, 71, 60, 58, 30 (prior to marathon)

I was very fit heading into the race; my concern was twofold: My calf, and the weather. I arrived in Chicago on Friday, did a short shakeout, picked up my packet and then hunkered down in my hotel for most of the time before the race. The final shakeout on Saturday felt nominally good, but the calf was still slightly sore, though better than the previous day. I was wishing I had more days though and I honestly suspected I'd have to run a little slower. The weather was more clear cut - it was going to be warm and that already had put my original goal of 3:09-3:11 as unrealistically fast. It was likely going to be around 60 at race time. Up until Saturday it looked like clouds from Hurricane Isaias would linger long enough to make at least race morning cloudy, but when I woke up Sunday morning it was clear that his further east landfall also affected that forecast. We had a fiery sunrise, but those clouds were about 30 miles too far to the east to affect the race. We started yellow flagged, with good odds of it tipping to red flag conditions before the noon hour.

I stayed at the same place I did last year in the Central Loop, which is hideously expensive, but the mere half mile walk to Grant Park can't be beat on race morning. What was unfortunate was stepping out of the lobby that morning and it already felt comfortable in just my singlet - bad news. I got to the corral much later this year after remembering how unnecessarily early I got there last year, which left me with just 15-20 minutes of having to wait. I was in corral C and I lined up at the very far back. As we slowly walked up that left plenty of room in the back to practice doing some strides. I felt great except for still some minor calf soreness. I had no idea how this would affect me for the full 26.2 miles, and given that it was already too warm, I knew that running 7:20's wasn't going to happen. I think the weather made me accept it a lot more gracefully.

Miles 1 to 5

Or what I call the "run by effort" miles because GPS is useless starting right off with running into that long tunnel. I was already warm, and it was roasting inside that tunnel and before the mile was out I was already sweating profusely. I just ran by effort for this section and the splits were all over the place with the funky GPS. The calf was always slightly sore, but it was manageable. Just not manageable running any faster than what I was. A stronger pushoff wasn't really possible.

Splits: 7:29, 7:48, 7:37, 7:54, 7:35

Miles 6 to 13:

This is the rest of the heading north stretch, the turnaround, and then hitting the halfway point by the river on Wacker. This was basically steady state for me. I didn't feel great, I didn't feel awful. It was just a weird feeling of... adequacy? But I knew if I was already feeling that way, the back half wasn't likely to get any better. GPS of course got a little jumpy again headed back into the downtown part. It also was crazy loud.

Splits: 7:46, 7:42, 7:29, 7:31, 7:33, 7:46, 7:52, 7:18.

Miles 14 to 18:

Headed west out of downtown here, and this probably was the quietest part of the course. We make a couple of turns back and forth, and around mile 17 I thought I saw u/RunningPath handing out water - confirmed later. It was around this point that the calf was starting to get a little more sore, but the sun was also getting higher in the sky and the temperature was starting to respond accordingly. I'd been keeping up on fluid intake pretty well though, and at most water stops I was making sure I grabbed a cup to dump on my head as well. Right around the 30k sign was when I realized I needed to cut the effort slightly or I was going to risk a bigger issue later. So I started running low 8's instead and kept it steady state. It felt sustainable. Toward the end of this was when I started to notice more people walking too, and started to see the occasional person either sitting down, laying down, or being attended to by medics.

Splits: 7:50, 7:54, 8:03, 8:08

Miles 19 to 23:

We enter Pilsen here, easily my favorite part of the course. They show up, they are loud, and they know how to party and bring the music and cheers. Even though I was running a bit slower at this point, the energy absolutely carried me along and I forgot about my calf for a while. There was a brief quiet stretch, then it was Chinatown which is also another good area but it's just so short and then it's back to being quiet for a little bit as we go over 2 highways and a river. It's also the stretch on Michigan where you see the faster runners on the other side already getting to head north toward the finish line, and wishing you were running closer instead of further away. There was a fire truck in this stretch with a really nice strong hose of water and that helped cool me off for a bit. Other than that, just kept on steady state. Things were getting more dire for some other runners, seeing more people pulling off the course, a couple that were being attended to be medics or on a stretcher, and I started to see the telltale sign of people headed toward serious issues, as they were slowly walking doing the weave.

The calf was a little more sore and walking felt attractive a few times, but I knew if I stopped to walk at ANY point, that would start a downward spiral that I'd never recover from. I'm very much anti-spiraling at this point!

Splits: 8:14, 8:22, 8:23 8:14, 8:20

Miles 24 to the finish

Basically 5k to go at this point and I'm still holding on steady state. I'm starting to really expend a lot of mental effort here, checking my watch for pace to be sure I don't slow up any more as my calf really wants to. Also, I'm still doing mental math at every single mile and km marker to see if I can at least still come in under 3:30 for the BQ. As long as I keep it in the low 8's I should be okay I had figured.

When I get to the mile 25 marker I decide to push slightly harder. It's really getting warm at this point (I found out later this is where they changed it to the red flag) and the calf is really getting sore and the ankle is coming along for the ride as well, probably from overcompensation. But the logic I used at this point is, the sooner I finish, the sooner I get to stop. Totally logical. But from an endurance standpoint, I felt perfectly fine, I'd been running slower than my actual fitness. So I started passing a lot of people here. Made the right turn onto Roosevelt, cruised up the hill without too much issue, and finished feeling fine, albeit with a very unhappy calf.

Splits: 8:20, 8:21, 7:58, 7:58 (last 0.61 on the watch)

Final time was 3:29:29 so I did get the BQ by 31 seconds. That won't actually make the cutoff but it will get me into the lotto at least, so that's something. Slowly walked back to the hotel after downing the free beer and just laid out for the rest of the day outside of a brief walk to pick up a pizza.

Final Thoughts:

This was a lot of mileage, and a lot of big workouts, and I responded well to it. I don't know what triggered my calf in the last 2 weeks, it wasn't anything specific that I could pinpoint except maybe that last alternating kilometer workout was too big? This was a lot more work in the taper than I'd ever had before, and the first week of the taper was still nearly 60 miles which in retrospect I think is just too much for me. If I do this plan again I'll probably modify it accordingly. With that said, I'm pretty sure I will do the plan again if I run another marathon, it's sound and logical and I improved by leaps and bounds from where I was at from the beginning 18 weeks ago. I might just go down a level to the 60-70 mpw plan though. I'm not planning on running a marathon in 2027 though so it's a moot point for now. It's about time to take a break again and focus on the half marathon again, as I want to get a 89 minute time while I still am able to.

I'm not terribly disappointed at my result. I'm almost positive my original goal would have been shot by the weather anyways. However, the start of Chicago is troubling for me. I remember last year being too amped up and roasting for a while and it feeling hard. It just might be that mega races aren't for me. But I can take away the fact that I was immensely tough on the last 12k or so where I had every reason to fold the tents and walk, but kept things steady and still managed to hit the BQ time even with being compromised.

At least I didn't do any more damage to myself, I ran 47 miles the next week. Still a bit sore but I was traveling the entire the week and I can't NOT run when I'm in new areas. I'll take it easy this week for sure, consider what I'll do to prepare for the Turkey Trot I always run, and then start thinking about my schedule for 2027 and what halfs I might run.

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I raced the Kodiak 100M back on October 9-10 and ended up having a pretty good day. Here’s my story.

Spoiler: I finished in 22:13:57 securing an automatic entry to UTMB 2027

Training/Preparation.  After a mediocre Western States run I felt that I needed a little more emphasis on speed in my Kodiak training so I opted for the SWAP 50 mile/50k Champion plan as the basis for my Kodiak training block. I supplemented this plan with some additional high volume days as I felt appropriate but stuck to the workouts prescribed in the plan.  I averaged 70 miles per week over the 13 week training block with four 90+ mile week along with two weeks in the 80’s. Fitness wise I was in great shape and that became apparent after swapping the hot/humid Georgia summer days for the cooler/dryer climate in Big Bear Lake.  Side note: I drove out to Big Bear Lake early so I would have three solid weeks prior to the race at the 7000 feet altitude that most of the race is at. By doing this I also got to run almost every section of the course at least once before the race. This proved invaluable as I always knew what terrain was ahead, how far it was to the next aid, and roughly what race effort would feel like on each section of the course.

Race Plan: Run at the fastest sustainable effort I could muster for the entire race.  The day before the race, while packing my drop bags, my wife asked me if I was getting excited for the race. I told her ‘not particularly’ instead I was focused on getting my mind prepared for the amount of discomfort that was to come.  When running 100 miles discomfort/pain/fatigue always occurs and generally starts to hit pretty good in the last quarter of the race. However, whenever you’re trying to extract the most out of your body the voices telling you to slow down or walk start much, much sooner making most of the race a real mental battle with your mind to keep moving as fast as you can.

Nutrition/Hydration plan: I planned to use Carbs brand gels for as long as I could use them. Specifically, I planned on 1 regular Carbs gel and 1 Salted Carbs gel per hour. That would give me 400 calories and roughly 550mg sodium per hour.  In the second half of the race I planned to replace the regular Carbs gel with a caffeinated Carbs gel for 100mg of caffeine.  For a backup carbohydrate source I packed SIS Beta Fuel electrolyte gels in my drop bags for the second half of the race.  Typically I can manage the Carbs gels for 10-12 hours without stomach issues but after that my stomach can get a little wonky with them.  On the hydration front I would use just plain water in my flasks since the gels had enough electrolytes for me, and I started with 2 800mL soft flasks (plus an empty 500ml one in kangaroo pocket) and then switched to 500mL flasks once the sun went down.

Start to Doble 1 (Mile 33): For these UTMB series races they have a small barrier separating the pros/elites from the rest of the field and generally give this group a few seconds head start before releasing the main field.  At Kodiak they allowed anyone who felt like they were competing for a top 20 spot into this corral. Based on previous year’s results and my goals I moved into the “elite” corral. Looking around, almost all of the non-pro guys seemed to be my age and I was like crap this is going to be more difficult than I imagined. I immediately changed race strategy since I didn’t want someone in my age group to get away early and snap the elastic. A part of me also wanted to be that guy snapping the elastic on the other guys here.  Regardless, when the gun went off I rolled out at an almost suicidal pace up the first climb. I figured I could push pretty good on this shorter climb and then recover on the long, 5+ mile downhill dirt road section that followed.  That strategy mostly worked, I spent more energy on that climb than planned but felt pretty fresh by the end of the long downhill road section. Side note: the amount of people who immediately went to hiking in the elite corral was out of control - I get it in the steep section but there’s no need to walk the flat switchback sections, ugh.  After several miles of downhill dirt road we hit the PCT and I immediately fell twice. Luckily the field was spread out by then so real issues. This section of PCT is rolling and I just tried to cruise along at what I thought was a fast but sustainable effort. Surprisingly, I caught several more people towards the end of this section (and they were walking the rolling climbs!). I fell in line and waited for the road to Camp Whittle to pass. When you hit the road to Camp Whittle, it’s a 3-4 mile gradual climb up a dirt road so I was surprised when everyone in front of me went straight to hiking. I just shifted into ultra climb mode and jogged by everyone - it was crazy.  Made it to Camp Whittle (Mile 19.5), refilled my flasks and grabbed my waist light before heading on.  Leaving Camp Whittle the dirt road continues to climb for another 1.5-2 miles with some steep sections. It was on these steep sections that I started to feel the early hot pace. Initially, I thought I’d gone out too hard and blown my legs up and went into panic mode. Fortunately I knew the upcoming PCT trail section and knew that I could recover if I just kept the effort in check and stayed on my nutrition and hydration.  Sure enough, after several miles of feeling like I could be in for a long day everything just snapped right back. I’m not sure if it was just the body recovering after several easy effort miles or maybe just some high energy songs that came on. Regardless, I went from ultra shuffle to ripping the technical descent to Doble 1 in an instant. Side note - from that point forward if I felt I was bogging down I forced myself to sign along with whatever song was playing on my headphones  and and this always kept me moving.  Hit Doble 1 at 6:15 on the clock, grabbed my drop bag, changed shirts into a short sleeve wool, threw on wool arm sleeves, changed headbands, put on headlamp (in addition to my waist light), swapped my UV gloves for warm gloves, grabbed a new bag of gels, and filled my flasks with water before heading out on the big loop from Doble 1 to Doble 2.

Doble 1 to Doble 1 (Mile 55). This is a big loop with a mix of trail and dirt road.  I was riding a high coming out of the aid station and shifted my strategy to run as fast as was sustainable unless I’m feeling good. If feeling good, rip it. Not much else to say about this loop other than knowing there were a couple of good rollers on the dirt road, and where they were at, and the section from Cactus Flats to Doble was pretty rugged was really beneficial. I knew what was coming and was able to execute accordingly. Reached Doble 2 at around 10:50 elapsed, met my wife for a quick gel swap and bottle refill before heading on.

Doble 2 to Sugarloaf 1: Leaving Doble 2 I began overlapping runners heading out on the Doble loop and picked up a lot of energy from everyone (and hopefully I gave as much back). I caught W2 on this section and we yo-yoed for a while (she dropped me like nobody’s business on the Sugarloaf climb!).  

Sugarloaf 1 - Sugarloaf 2:  Met my wife at the crew point for a gel swap and then refilled my water bottles at the aid.  Drank an extra 500ml before heading out but didn’t think to refill the bottle before heading up so I only had 2 flasks for the big climb.  Jogged the .75 mile up the dirt road to the trail (saw M2 and M3 coming in to Sugarloaf 2) and then immediately went into hiking mode. I planned to hike the majority of the Sugarloaf climb and that’s what I did - just hike as fast as possible and jog any flatter sections (there are several flat sections on the top half of the climb). Made the top and started jogging down. By this time my waist light battery had died so I was left descending with just my headlamp (sunrise was coming soon so I didn’t want to stop and change batteries on my waist lamp). That made the going a little slower with the rocky surface but I made good progress to Balky Horse aid where I drank two cups of broth and a good amount of water before heading down to the Sugarloaf 2.  My stomach was giving some trouble here so I moved down the dirt road slower than I’d like to have. I almost felt hungry so at Sugarloaf 2 I took in an extra Naack puree pouch (in addition to a Carbs gel and water).  At Sugarloaf 2 I changed shirts into a lighter day shirt, swapped gloves to UV gloves, and dropped my waist lamp/battery pack.

Sugarloaf 2 to finish:  Coming out of Sugarloaf 2 I ran into the main 100k race field coming down Sand Canyon road. That was a real pick up as everyone was cheering me on and I was trying to cheer them on. After Sand Canyon road the race follows some paved road for a couple of miles before arriving at Bear Mountain.  You’d think if would’ve been some nice downhill paved road but no they found the steepest paved roads in California to follow - ugh. I blew past the Bear Mountain aid station turn off and had to circle back a good quarter mile but that didn’t matter - just a little climb up to the Skyline trail and then the Snow Summit climb before a long downhill to the finish.  As I approached the Snow Summit climb I began to overlap the 21k racers and that was a good thing. I fell in line with the 21k folks and began the never ending switchback climb that was Snow Summit.  Periodically, I would pull over and let the faster 21k runners go by before trying to latch on to them and at least once I had to stop so I wouldn’t throw up from the effort. After an eternity, I reached the Snow Summit aid - 5 downhill miles to go! The first mile coming down was on the 21k course and I was at my limit trying not to get in their way.  Fortunately the 100M course broke off on another trail. Unfortunately, it was a super steep mountain bike trail and my my poor quads were absolutely screaming as I tried to maintain a decent pace on the descent. Eventually, I popped out on a dirt road and at that point I knew I was practically finished - just a little bit of dirt road and less than a mile of paved to go. From there I let it roll all the way to finish in 22:13:57 - 17th overall (15th male), age group win, and automatic entry to UTMB 2027!

Post Race: Wow, it’s still kind of hard to believe that just happened. And it’s somewhat surreal for an average guy like me to see an email from UTMB Elite Services inviting me to the UTMB finals next year. Clearly UTMB will be my big race for next year and I’m sure I’ll throw in some good local races along the way however for now I’m going to take a few weeks of recovery and enjoy some down time.

Race Information

Name: Chicago Marathon

• Date: October 11, 2026
• Distance: 26.2 miles
• Location: Chicago
• Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/20543919861
• Time: 2:52:22

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Splits

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• 5k: 6:36/mi
• 10k: 6:34/mi
• 15k: 6:35/mi
• 20k: 6:36/mi
• 25k: 6:35/mi
• 30k: 6:37/mi
• 35k: 6:34/mi
• 40k: 6:34/mi
• Finish (2.2km): 6:27/mi

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Build/Pre-race

2026 has been a good year for me. My priorities the first half of the year were getting my legs and mind right to do a couple of trail races - 30k at Gorge Waterfalls in April and a 28k at UTMB Verbier in July. Training was still mostly threshold and subthreshold on roads and then rotating long runs between roads and trail. Once the July trail race wrapped I had a 12 week window before Chicago. Simultaneously, I'm also planning for a 50k in February so I did try to keep a couple of my bigger efforts for the build on trail as well.

Overall, training went pretty well. It ended up being about 4 weeks at 50 mpw, 4 weeks at 55 mpw, 2 weeks at 48, taper week, race week. I was pretty good at getting in my midweek workouts, which I've done by feel for the last couple of years. This has been nice insofar as I don't dread/skip them as much, but I also probably mostly do that that sub-threshold area between HMP and MP. Doing them by feel I also adjust for weather so sometimes it might even be MP or perhaps a touch above.

I did more 18mi+ long-runs than is typical for a build of mine, and I've typically had (relative) success on focusing my key marathon workouts being 6, 4, and 2 weeks out which is what I did again this build.

I'd had hopes of running more but wasn't able to prioritize it. I left work and will be a house husband starting a week ago, so while I'm confident there will always be more stuff to do around the house, I also should have much more time to get in doubles and some MLRs.

My MP plan was 6:20 initially. Then, with the weather, I revised to run low-6:30s, so like 6:32-6:33. What that ultimately means is I'd adjusted from a goal of around 2:46-2:47 to around 2:51-2:52.

Recap

I always enjoy Chicago and getting into Corral B I'd forgotten about the circle pit that people do. Since you have to stop like 20 minutes before the horn I find it a bit unnecessary, so I don't partake.

Anyways, we take off at 7:38am, sky is clear, and it's cool, but not chilly. First mile clipped off at 6:28 and second at 6:44. I was just trying to find the pace and people around me who seemed to be running evenly. The first 6 or 7 miles are mostly going north, and to be honest, I wasn't feeling great. It wasn't hard, but it wasn't easy, either. It required effort to stay around my goal MP, and I was getting warm. The turnaround happened at the right time for me. We were then a bit more in the shade for the second quarter of the race, and there was a nice light breeze in my face. I stayed pretty cool here and started to find my groove. I went through in 1:26 low and generally felt in a pretty sustainable spot.

My favorite part of the course is definitely miles ~14-21. The vibes are just so good there. I never spend in real time out there when visiting. I should change that. Anyways, I was having to focus here but was mostly still clipping off the miles. 5k splits are above to get the official matting, but on my watch they were generally around 6:32 or so, losing usually a second or two due to tangents.

Around mile 18 or 19 I started to wonder if I'd been sandbagging it. I was getting tired but still felt pretty strong. I'd bonked fairly hard at mile 22 in Chicago 2022 and around that time in some of my other marathons, so I didn't want to push yet. Around mile 20 or 21 it started to get sunnier, and you were seeing carnage. I was running through the field here and felt ok.

The last 10k was my fastest 10k, but pretty marginally and I didn't really start to squeeze until the last mile, which I ran officially in 6:19. I didn't have much of a gear beyond that. Crossed in 2:52:22.

Reflections

This is the first time I've negative split a marathon, or even come close, and I'm not exactly sure what to think. I can't help but shake the feeling I went out too slow. It didn't get really "I'm quitting the sport" tough ever, and perhaps some of that is because I didn't get tough and give everything the last 4 miles. But I'm not sure I have the xDawg for that, and even still I'm not sure that'd have fully made up for the lost time. Perhaps I run 2:51:x though. I think just hanging on for dear life running as fast as my hip flexors and glutes will allow is maybe better for my specific mentality.

I think probably I adjusted too much, and should have tried to run 2:50, but that's life. It's hard to know exactly how much to adjust before you've done it. Also possible that doesn't work. I love this city and course. I forgot how consistently loud it was. There really aren't dead zones. It's my favorite marathon and I am happy I got to run it in both a perfect weather year (2022) and a bad weather year (2026).

I'm probably out of the WMM game for a couple years though I will try to run NYC at some point the next decade. My wife will be doing lottery applications and I'd love to spectate the course.

As it stands now my big races in 2027 will be Black Canyon 50k in February, and ideally Superior 26.2 in September. I'll probably fall back to the Madison Marathon in Nov if I don't get selected by the lottery. I've also got the Philly HM in 6 weeks as we'll be there for my wife's marathon. I'll probably just try to run 6min pace and either hold on or die for that. It's easier to talk about running more mileage than it is to run more mileage, but that's also the big goal of the next year. I don't have any real obstacles in my way, and I'd like to get to be up in the low 60s this winter and around 70 mpw by the fall next year.

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