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Marathon training - Week 11
By booyaa | April 22, 2007
| Date | Distance | Type | Time | Pace | Difficulty | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21st Apr | 20.04 Mi | Long | 3:08:10 | 9:24 | 9 | Bushy Park |
| 19th Apr | 7.68 Mi | Tempo | 1:10:30 | 9:11 | 8 | Bushy Park |
Man I’ve missed the Internet at home. It’s the little things like being able to look at your training logs, Nike+ graphs and not being able to calculate what pace I need to run for my interval runs (I decided to up the pace after setting a PB for the 10K) that I missed.
Work’s been tough this week, which caused me to give the speed training a miss. I’ve had a really tough time with speed training, often it’s because I can’t get up to the right pace. This has often led to frustation and annoyance. So I felt it wasn’t worth going out and running, speed training doesn’t have the same kind of stress busting effect that the tempo or long run does on me.
The tempo run was uneventful, it was a post work run since I left work early. It’s really starting to get hot and sunny nowadays which means I have to start gearing my runs towards very early morning or early evening.
The long run was tough, I knew it would be. I felt great right up to mile 15, by 19 I developed a painful ache on the side of my right knee. After a bit of stretching I was able to run it off to complete the required 20 miles. Not entirely sure where I’m going to find those last 6 miles.
During the long run I also tested my fueling strategies for the marathon. I think I could do with another bottle of Taut (clean isotonic drink) and a few more dates with pecans. I’m going to need a running bladder (camelback etc) or drinks belt. I would prefer the running bladder because you don’t have to fiddle with bottles, I also think they don’t wobble as much as drinks/fuel belts. What I’m not sure about is which style should I go for; belt (wrap around) or backpack. I’m worried the backpack may chafe.
No stitches since I started drinking the isotonic drinks during long runs (10+ miles), so fingers crossed it’ll stay that way.
Marathon Time Completion Predict-o-matic â„¢: I ran 20.04 miles in 3 hours, 08 minutes and 10 seconds yesterday. I predict I will complete my first marathon in
4 hours 20 minutes and 46 seconds.
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FIRST marathon training schedule
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April 23rd, 2007 at 7:01 pm
How do you get such sexy shots out of Nike ? Are those just screen shots or are you somehow extracting your charts? I covet your ability to display running data.
April 23rd, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Just over a month to go now.
Getting close isn’t it.
April 23rd, 2007 at 10:34 pm
@ed - I use a free mac app called CaptureMe which allows me to grab a specific portion of the screen (or in this case part of the browser). This save time on cropping.
@angela - Yes, not too long now. *bites nails* I hope Edinburgh stays cool, it looked very hot at FLM 2007.