I had been starting to wonder why i wasstoring my run log binders. i enjoy my run logs for review from week to week but by the end of the season they get shelved and forgotten. I always think one day I will sit down and start to leaf through the years, and begin to piece together the successes of each season and learn from the failures, and in doing do put together my best plan yet on route to sub 2:40 at 40. Well home with a coughing 5 yr old today, who was too wiped to keep me on my toes, I actually pulled out 2009, which was my best season to date and 2010, great training year and 10 km PR and Transrockies Run but a bust at NYC Marathon. What's cool is that i have never referred back specifically to an old plans when making a new one, but when you look back there begins to be some consistencies. I figure these are ideas or workouts that i beleive are integral for successful training and or racing. Then i find small differences, probably based on the research or books i read during that year, and from those readings, new ideas or workouts may replace old ones or join them to add to internal template for successful training.