Marathon Training – The Graphs Edition

Part of my marathon taper is always spent burning off nervous energy by making graphs. First, here’s a graph of the mileage I’ve done over the 12 weeks of marathon training. It was a pretty steady progression of mileage increases with one recovery week and two taper weeks.

Next up we have a comparison of the weekly mileage I’ve put in the 16 weeks prior to my two previous marathons and my upcoming marathon. It’s pretty obvious that while I still got the high mileage weeks in I definitely did an abbreviated program this time around.

Finally here’s a graph of my total training mileage by training type. I didn’t do any tune-up races this time around because there weren’t any conveniently scheduled ones. I do wish I’d been able to squeeze a race paced half marathon in but I it didn’t happen. All in all I’m happy with the training that I did manage to accomplish during the past 12 weeks. The countdown is on: four days to the marathon!