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2017 Marathon Training Thread
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Sorry you're missing Sterling.
Cassie, no gains to be made fitness wise so you could rest up and the massage could do the trick, good luck.
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Gym this morning 6 miles on the x-trainer and some weights, I'll be back this evening for body balance and I might do a few laps of the track before hand.
Cal take it easy with your niggly butt! Is it piriformis?
Cassie not much can be done now but in most cases rest works.
My right calf has been niggly for the last week. It had settled but after threshold intervals on Saturday and a nice easy 75 minutes yesterday it's back. Will rest it now (will turbo but not run) as there's nothing to be gained by running for the next few days.
F
I will need to build up towards 18+ mile long runs in 3 hours. 18 @ 10m/m = 3 hours, 20 @ 9m/m = 3 hours. 22 miles @ 8m/m = 2h56mins.
In mid-June to celebrate my 100th Park Run, I will run Marathon #9. 3:15 is my goal time and I will pace accordingly. There are only pacers for 3:00, 3:30, 4:00, 4:30 pacers, so I will need to run between the 3:00 to 3:30 pace groups to get my time goal.
Mid week will include: easy cycles, gym session and easy runs. Park Run + long walk/run on Sunday. 26.2 miles is my longest training run, 3 months before my Target Marathon to bring up Marathon #10. Sub 3:10 will be my time goal.
Fiona - Pretty sure it's actually high hamstring tendinopathy. But I've had piriformis issues before. I'm wondering if I should see the physio (I already get sports massage).
Did another achey 4 miles today. I can run with it - question is, whether I should. But the three days of rest I gave it made zero difference.
Kind of enjoyed it. The glute ham feel a bit achey/niggly but not terrible, and the discomfort does not seem to increase with speed (not that I should be doing sprints, mind you). I'm seeing my physio later so we'll see what he says.
Fiona, good luck on Sunday your training has gone well and you have managed the ankle really well, I'll be rooting for you whilst watching the coverage on the beeb.
S17, good luck with the sub 3:15 attempt
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Two miles on the track after pump on Monday, balance was cancelled at the last minute, which was a little annoying, I was looking forward to a good stretch. 4.5 miles along the canal yesterday morning and around 5 miles on the x-trainer in the evening, will be back in the gym this evening for some more boring miles on the x-trainer.
Did up to 21 miles in training @ 8.58 but majority of runs have averaged around the 8.20-8.40 m/m.
Desperate for sub 4 hrs, after doing 4hr 50 in 2014.
Wish everyone a safe run on Sunday!
Cal I hope that your injury settles, its great that you can still run. What is the event in Liverpool?
Another turbo this morning and possibly the same tomorrow.
F
4 miles plus 10k cycle to kickstart the recovery portion of the marathon plan, which I hope to complete before transitioning back into P&D.
Not much reading going on but been catching up on all the Doctor Who that I've missed so I'm now up to date, cause I'm a nerd like that.
Stewart - sorry to read about your Mum
Fiona - hope the calf is ok, fingers crossed for you
Tek and NP both noticeable by their absence, so hope all is ok ....
Fiona, good luck on Sunday I'll keep an eye on the tracker
Cal, rest days are overrated anyway
snewmaOO, sub 4 should be achievable as long as those LR paces didn't take too much out of you.
Ollie, when does the schedule start?
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5 miles in the woods at Balloch yesterday morning, perfect conditions along the trails, cricket training in the evening, feeling a little stiff today but a good stretch at body balance will sort me out later, fingers crossed the class won't be cancelled again.
mace I'm 534, numbers front and back with a pink stripe through them. A chip on each shoe too, a champs start thing so I can use the extra weight as an excuse for my slow time!
Hope that all is well with you
Cal shame that the rest day didn't work!
Stewart that's a nice run at Balloch, fingers crossed for your balance class.
Ollie enjoy the nice relaxed transition before P & D starts
Meeting NP for a run tomorrow
Hope everyone has a good weekend and good luck to all racing or doing long runs
F
SC: Hopefully get started properly in 5 weeks time.
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5 miles today to complete day 490.
Good luck to the weekend racers.
A parkrun stress test today. One mile warm-up, which was fine despite having a very achey butt yesterday (I think some of that ache is down to the rehab exercises, actually). I was intending to run parkrun at HM pace but went a little quicker (average 8:43). Some aching after the first mile but nothing awful. I had a long chat after with a marshall who was doing London tomorrow and a 100 miler the following weekend (nutter!) and after that I was able to jog down the road with no discomfort.
I will try a longer run tomorrow to see how it copes with a bit more distance.
Sunday and Wednesday were easy long walks.
Tuesday and Thursday were easy cycles.
On Friday I ran 25km in 2 hours.
Today in my Park Run I ran 18:11.
Tomorrow I will run 20km at an easy pace.
During the week I will run 2 days and cycle 2 days.
I will take Friday off as rest day ahead of my next Park Run.
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7 miles from me today, easy does it.
4 miles very easy this morning I was and am still a bit stiff after cricket yesterday, must be getting old!
I'm training for the amsterdam marathon...
Well done to all that raced last weekend, hope everyone is recovering well.
5 miles for me today, in just over 40 minutes.
Cal, be careful with the niggle, did you see someone?
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4 miles again last night, the sun was out but it was cold and there was an April hail shower hopefully that will be the end of the cold weather after all it is Spring.