consulted the experts at Runner’s World, including former Boston champion Amby Burfoot, and they created for me an exact and demanding training schedule. It was daunting. My usual marathon training had me running thirty miles a week, perhaps thirty-five or forty on those weeks with a twenty-mile run on the weekend. This schedule would double it, to sixty miles a week and beyond. I would do the runs on a strict schedule, changing from hill work in the beginning, to build a base of leg strength, to speed work and tempo runs, along with long runs. One day on the schedule, about twelve weeks into
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