Official marathon training approaching

I'm excited, I truly am... But gosh sometimes I wonder why I signed up for this thing.

I have made a comfortable exercise routine for myself over the past 6 years. It typically includes running 2-3 days a week. One week, if someone wants me to go to yoga with them I will. My pattern is not rigid, but its fairly routine. Like, I really don't typically like to workout on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays and Mondays are a toss up. If you are counting, thats 3 days, Tues, Thurs, and Sat. And, not gonna lie, I've missed several of those workouts without being too torn up about it. It is VERY rare that I workout more than 3 days, and very very rare that I do more than 4.

I think it hit me kinda hard the other day when I looked at my running training log and realized that I had run 1x over the past week and my weekly mileages were around 9-10 miles, on a DECENT week. Eeek.

They say that before you train for a marathon you should be averaging around 20-25 miles/week and comfortable able to run 5-6 miles consistently.

A year ago, I was close. Today, ehhhh.... not so much.

Soooo as I'm typing all this out its helping me realize, that its time to get my butt into pre-marathon shape, or at least as much as possible before June 10th-ish, the official start date of my training. In an attempt to make my training plan do-able for me, I scheduled 4 days of running and 1-2 days of cross training/strength. But either way, its going to be an adjustment!

Since the long weeked is upon us, it will be a bit easier so I'm hoping to get in a decent amount of running.

My plan for the next 3 days:
Saturday: Run 6-7 miles with the Clocktower Running Group
Sunday: short run (2-3 miles) or just hike near my aunt's house in the suburbs
Monday: Run 5 miles, stretch/yoga at home

I need a bit of accountability/to see it all written out for myself so I will be checking in here over the next few days.

As I said, I am very excited, but nervous. I know marathon training is a huge commitment and although I feel confident I can do it, I know myself and I am going to really need to make time for training.

Enjoy the long weekend everyone. :)