My Turn ... Running Down A Dream
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Two weeks to go til the Surrey marathon.
On the tapering part now, so "only" a half on the weekend. Although I managed to smash it out at 1:50:02 with comfort. So pretty happy with that. The longest run I've done now is 34km which was tough, although at the end of it I know that I could have done another 8.
This weekends long run is 16km for a total of around 35 km this week.
Overall stats now fairly decent. 670km run YTD and around 1100 km in training in total (commenced 1st October). Going to push for 2000km this year. Should be relatively straight forward as long as I don't get an injury. Body is creaking a bit in a few places, but as long as I take care of it this week the marathon should be ok. Then a few days downtime post it should do it a world of good.
Think going to try and maintain a strong half level of fitness through to October 4th for the London one. Then pick up the last 8 weeks of my current plan with perhaps an extra km or two on top of every run. The key thing is keeping the weight off. As when this lockdown ends, I expect there are going to be drinking sessions / socialising opportunities a plenty.
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Still a marathon.
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Still a marathon. Well done mate
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Awesome mahi bro! and still a bloody marathon as @antipodean said. No mean effort.
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Yeah, a marathon completion is an achievement regardless of times.
Nice work
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@MajorRage well done!
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@MajorRage That's really good, well done mate! When I started out running marathons I was doing them at around the 4:40 to 4:55 mark so you should be really happy. Will you continue running? I hear the London marathon could be restricted to elite runners similar to Tokyo?
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Any experience on here from people who have run marathons on how long to take off after it?
I've been walking 2 hours ish each day since the run, and I can still feel a few tight spots / niggles. I ran 10k on Saturday ( a week post the big one) and it was super difficult. 3-4 different areas of my legs felt like they were coming back from serious injury. Runners World tells me this is normal and to be expected. They recommend at least a week, and then building it back up slowly. Other sites recommend a month!
I feel I'm getting fat, so don't want to keep off it for long, but also don't want to do nothing. My mountain bike is on order, but is going to take a while unfortunately. All pools are closed so can't swim either. I'll do a 7-8k today to see how it goes, but interested in any thoughts out there.
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@MajorRage sure.
Rest. Massage. Start slowly again and build up incrementally. No intense sessions (no hills, no pace, no big distances).
Same old boring shit, but it works!
Until you get too old of course.
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@voodoo said in My Turn ... Running Down A Dream:
@MajorRage sure.
Rest. Massage. Start slowly again and build up incrementally. No intense sessions (no hills, no pace, no big distances).
Same old boring shit, but it works!
Until you get too old of course.
Cheers .. I'm fairly confident London marathon will be canned this year. Hope so now, as if I can do none of the above, then its' gonna be tough ....
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Yeah I've been deep heating the right calf and Achilles and it's certainly helped. Left Achilles has been feeling dodgy for ages but not sore, just a slight pulling. It's holding in there though!
Right Achilles (which had the repair) aches most mornings where it joins the heel...but the deep heat rubs have been helping for sure.
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