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Marathon training/Cross country season, days 1-17

To be fair, Marathon training started quite a while ago for me, but since it starts 8 months from today, I'll count that as day 1 . I joined a track team very early this spring, my Mom didn't like how inactive I was, so she signed me up for track. I am really glad she did, ever since track has started, I have been running a lot, over the summer I joined a running club, ran 300 miles, and since have joined a cross country team. Right now, since marathon workout plans don't extend out this far, (8 months) then I don't run any set runs right now, plus I have my cross country workouts I am running, so I don't want to burn myself out too much anyway. Currently, I haven't run anything farther than 11.5 miles, and my current mileage is 30-35 miles a week. As of last week, I had my first 5k race and cross country meet, I ran expecting to get ~22:30 and I ended up crushing the time with a 20:52. With everything going as it is, I am looking forward to running more in the...