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Marathon training - Week 13
By booyaa | May 6, 2007
| Date | Distance | Type | Time | Pace | Difficulty | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5th May | 10.95 Mi | Long | 1:58:55 | 10:52/Mi | 4 | Bushy Park |
| 3rd May | 5.01 Mi | Tempo | 43:47 | 8:45/Mi | 7 | Bushy Park |
| 1st May | 6.32 Mi | Interval | 1:04:36 | 10:14/Mi | 4 | Bushy Park |
Not a good week for training. My knee made itself known on all occasions that I was out running. The interval training felt the brunt of the ITBS. I was hobbling by the last mile, which meant I was stiff and sore on the problematic knee for the rest of the day. The tempo run wasn’t nearly as bad, I completed my run with only a slight dull ache. The difference between the two runs was that on the tempo run I did my ITB stretch and I also wore my orthotics, which I didn’t do for my the interval run.
I was heavily carbonated this week i.e. I paid several visits to the physio, but I’ll keep that for a separate post. So prior to my long run on Saturday I had a large collection of stretches and strengthen exercises I needed to do beforehand.
Sadly this didn’t stop the dull ache happening at mile 5. I managed another 5 miles, but fell short of the required 20 miles. In the end I decided not to risk further injury this close to the marathon. I’ve been reminding myself that I started this whole running nonsense back in August 2006 and I have banked enough miles to survive the marathon. I just hope don’t injury myself in mile 5, because I don’t fancy walking 21.2 miles.
What I’m not sure about, is the cause of the knee ache, if it was the additional load of my camelbak or if my knee’s become oversensitised from the inflammation. Last week I ran 15 miles with little fuss.
Marathon Time Completion Predict-o-matic â„¢: I ran 10.95 miles in 1 hours, 58 minutes and 55 seconds on Saturday 5th of May. I predict I will complete my first marathon in
5 hours 1 minutes and 36 seconds. (*@!? ARGGH! *@!?)
Related posts:
FIRST marathon training schedule
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