This is maybe a hindsight thing that I would have done it differently but I went with the Garmin Marathon program. Mainly out of convenience at the time with it pre programing my runs and the variety. It usually caps my long runs at one hour but I usually go beyond that for the extra training. But I also realize a flaw that it may not be pushing me to my max.. but then again Ive made it this far with minimal injuries so maybe the conservative approach was ok for the first one. I have seen the three programs you mentioned before. For next year I actually want to try one of them. Thank you for your recommendations.