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Thanks - I did check out the pace indicators, I think it gave a predicted marathon time of 4hrs 1min - 4hrs 6mins. If my 18 miler yesterday is anything to go by it will be slower than that though, the last mile was a struggle - felt very light headed!
Looking forward to a night off tonight, feet up - woo hoo!
Thanks for that, I remember seeing this a while ago but had forgotten about it! My most recent race as a 10 miler in October which I ran on hardly any training - this gives me 4.20 to aim for, a 10 miler the year before which I did train for gives me 4.08 - which one do you think is the one to aim for as I was thinking of printing off a pace band with all the splits on?
Saying that, my time from yesterday predicts me at 3h46 which I think is extremely overly-optimistic!!!
I ran Reading yesterday in 1:39, it tells me that I will run London in 3:30. Never going to happen, 3:50 - 4:00 more like it.
Not trying to be negative, but please dont fall into the same trap as I did.
I ran Finchley 20 yesterday and managed a very respectable 2h56, so all looks good at the moment.
Completing 20 does definitely make you think you're getting there, and hopefully on the day, the extra 6m will just fly by (who am I kidding?!?)
Newbie1 - did you do Finchley? I quite enjoyed it though the mileage markers were definitely a bit out (miles 1 and 2 of each lap being longer and more boring than the latter 3 - did you think?)
Well done!
I did 18.5 M in 3-12 yesterday - an easy pace for me, although I felt really tired for the last 4 miles. Got an extra rest day this week and then Cranleigh 21 on Sunday where I'm hoping to up the pace a bit to around the 4-15 target then.
I found the 3rd lap the worst - somehow tricked myself into getting through it, by making sure I had something to look forward to (drink station/energy gel etc). BB - the first 2 miles of the circuit were definitely the worst - they felt so long!
one thing, would like advice on - this is my longest run, so might just be am not used to it, but i absolutely seized up at the end. It felt like my back, hamstrings and glutes would just not move. in the end I stretched and it gradually got better, but I wondered what caused it. Do you think I could have been dehydrated?
One thing that did strike me - i had got along under the impression that if I could manage 20m, I could definitely hang in there for another 6. given how tired and stiff I felt after 20m am not quite so certain now!
Yes, third lap was difficult, especially passing 13m which is normally the end of most of my races, being half marathons. Not sure why you felt so stiff but stretching asap after always helps out. My legs really started stiffening for the last 3m too, but now we've done that distance, it won't seem so bad next time.
And just think, you'd only have to do one more lap to have pretty much finished FLM! That's how I'm trying to see it, anyway.
Sorry, I didn't pay much attention to anyone at the finish, and changed and left as quick as possible as I had to walk back to the station. I was wearing a grey cap as well as blue 3/4 leggings and dark grey top.
I feel like I'd prefer to do it again so my legs get used to it, though now I'm not sure. What do people think?
Personally I'm looking forward to tapering - we're into the last hard 10 days of the schedule - yay!!!!
not sure what to do now!
do you have any hints on helping it heal? I'm taking Ibuprofen and trying to keep it elevated but that's it!
hope it works for you!
I was pleased because I ran at a consistent pace the whole way. My first 3 miles were fractionally slower, but I managed a 9 min mile at the end (over a hill also). I managed a negative split over half distance of about 1 minute, and if my life had depended on it then I probably could have run the last 5 miles at the same 9.5 min/mile pace.
I did Kingston 16M yesterday. Was aiming to do slow 9.5min miles the whole way, but couldn't help speed up in the last 5 miles (I just like overtaking people!). Finished in 2h25 so pleased with that.
How's everyone else doing....only 3 weeks 6 days to go?!!!!
Was pleased that had not raced in the end (was going to do the oakley 20) as I have the same problem as you bikingbird - when i do a race, I can't help trying to pass people so then I end up going too fast. In the end I did very comfortable 9.5 - 10min miles and felt so much better than when I did the finchley 20 last weekend. So, it seems the training foes really work!
Am looking forward to getting this week over with and getting into the taper - have one more long one - prob try for 20m again, although am in the lake district so am wondering how I will find a route which won't kill me with all the hills!
All went well except for miles 13-17 on Sunday. I took Lucozade sport with me and bought some more from a corner shop on the way round. I was sipping it every 5 mins until 13 miles when I started to get a bad stomach ache. I had drunk about 2.5 x 500ml bottles at the time. It slowed me right down, but went away for the last couple of miles. I couldn't drink much for the last hour of the run, but didn't seem to get dehydrated. I've drunk Lucozade Sport before without a problem, but never in such large amounts and I usually combine it with water and/or gels.
Anyway, at FLM I'm going to carry a couple of gels and go easy on the Lucozade Sport.
That's my last long run now. The RW schedules say 18m next Sunday but I'm planning to taper back down to 10m. What are other people doing?
And how's everyone else's training? Good, I hope
It did just over 40 miles last week, so plan to cut down to 30 this week, 20 next week and 10 miles in the week before the marathon. I'm keeping to 5 runs a week until the last week, when I will probably not run after Thursday, or do any run longer than 4 miles.