More marathon training

  I've made it through the peak of the long run training I think with a 23 mile long run last Sunday and a 9.5 mile tempo run yesterday, injury free. I wouldn't recommend ramping up the mileage like I did on the long runs so quickly. I had a left ankle niggle going into yesterday's run that had me nervous but didn's manifest itself at all. Ironically, my right achilles and ankle felt tight. For the rest of the day however and this morning I have to pain, only some stiffness getting out of bed which is just cold tendons and such, so I am thankful for that .
    I started the schedule late and didn't run any 1/4mile repeats, instead having run hills for a the key workout for one month prior to starting the ramp up. I'm hoping that was enough. Yesterdays tempo run really was hard, and I don't think I could have run too much longer than I did. I was aiming for 10 miles as it was and cut it short. This makes me nervous as the pace was only 30 seconds per mile faster than marathon pace and my heart rate was jacked. I'm am hoping that the tempo runs in the next few weeks will do the trick for me.
    One more real long run, a 24 miler, and I'm good to go. I'm planning this week as a back off week, though I'm actually adding two recovery runs and just did the hard tempo run. I'm going to keep those runs low intensity, and do a shorter long run (though maybe I'll run it as a tempo run? you can really see I don't know what I'm doing here.)