marathon maintenance

Marathon training would be easy if it were all about running. But to truly prep to race it you have to do the ... extra work. The tedious manintenance, the form drills, the.... stretching. 

I'm horrible at this stuff. Horrible. I spend more energy beating myself up about not doing it than it would take to actually just do it. 

There I admitted it. Now it's time to address it. 

My first baby steps
1. I stand on my incline board for 2 minutes while I brush my teeth every night. Keeps my gums happy, keeps my calves happy. 
2. I walk "creatively" to the water cooler once a day (lunge walk, pushup walk, side lunge walk).
3. I stretch once a day using my rope, even if it's just two stretches. 
4. I run hills (10 x 200m) on at least every other Friday run

the struggle to become a pigeon. arghhh hips!

Goals for next 4 weeks
1. Maintain above 1-3
2. Add strides 2 x week (tuesday + friday)
3. Use my gym membership 2 x week. PLAN the workout and actually effing do it. 
4. Stretch lateral muscles :25 minutes 3 x week. Use a iPhone yoga app?
5. DRILLS! Just once a week to start, strides in between drills. Could couple with stride days.

Experts! Marathoners! What am I missing?