Just two weeks until the City of Angels half marathon, and my training is going very well. I completed my last 'hard' long run today and despite being a cold coming on I managed to complete 4 miles at race pace to close out the run. Next week I have a 13 miler at an easy pace followed by a few days of taper. Hopefully I won't stuff my self too much at Thanksgiving and screw up my training. In fact I plan on doing a tempo run Thanksgiving morning because I won't do it the day after and this way I can feel guilt free eating all I want 
Some good news for the marathon team this week. It seems that the Pasadena organizers are planning on rescheduling for March which would fit our schedule perfectly. If that doesn't work out I think our team might break into smaller groups and train for a few different events. My plan after the half marathon is to build up my weekly mileage to around 45-50 miles and either start a maintainence program or start a program for Pasadena.
With the increase in mileage I think it is going to be much more important to maintain a slower pace on easy runs. I had a very good training week this week and I think it is in large part to how slowly I ran on Thursdays run (set up nicely for 'Fast Friday'). Running 50 mpw means running 8-9 mile easy runs, which if done any faster than easy pace actually requires some recovery. However if done properly these runs build endurance without stressing the body at all.
My eating program seems to be working well. I have been focusing on eating more before and after workouts and I think this will work quite nicely. I have been eating a few more calories than what I was before, but now that my mileage is in the upper 30's I think this is expected.
As I said before I had a decent run today. Ran the last 4 miles of a 12 miler at sub 7 pace. I didn't really feel that great during the whole run, but I made it through. A combination of being active yesterday (moving stuff in the apt.), being sick, and a tough workout on Friday. On Friday I did 4 one mile intervals, and they were great. Ran the first two at 6:30, third about 6:25 and the last at 6:14. I don't really like 1 mile intervals but this was a great workout, and next week back to my favorite...tempo run.
Last weeks training:
Tuesday - 5.99 Mile Easy/Fartlek - 45:47 min, 7:38 pace
Wednesday - 5.01 Mile Easy Run - 39:19 min, 7:50 pace
Thursday - 6.03 Mile Easy Run - 49:58 min, 8:17 pace
Friday - 7.81 Speedwork Mile Intervals - 57:11 min, 7:19 pace
Sunday - 12 Mile Long Run - 1:33:42 min, 7:48 pace
