Howdy, Stranger!
Categories
Options
Shades Marathon Training
The materials in this website are in no way intended to replace the professional medical care, advice, diagnosis or treatment of a doctor, qualified personal trainer, therapist, dietitian or nutritionist Runners's World, Part of the Hearst UK well-being network © Copyright 2017
Comments
As Ian says just not practical or sensible to introduce messaging or any other type of notification.
People have to be responsible for their own health and it's solely the individuals decision as to how hard they race or train.
I’ll try and do a short run in the week as I was planning on using a new pair of shoes for the marathon but want to do a short practice run in them first.
Not wearing your Nike race shoes then for Chicago?
Rest day for me. Knee is less niggly today but a little swelling. Have walked a couple of miles morning, went to get my flu jab, and it was fine.
I'm not planning to go to Barnstaple tomorrow although I did sneak a look at the weather. Not great for marathon running as first 3 hours has humidity from 97 to 91% 🥵
That's so annoying about your foot, you've been really careful in the last week.
Is Tigg off to the dog sitter next week?
You're doing all you can re injury, rehab and making the best of your Chicago trip. Not having any pressure, whether self imposed or expected of you by others, relieves you of high expectations when it comes to race performance. But instead you still have the injury to deal with, but I'm sure you'll get round and have a good day.
I haven't made it back to the start line yet! But I'm not giving up hope.
Interesting, what subject are you studying now?
Look out for Nessie 🦖
Big G - yikes! Tunde was telling me today about a guy from his club, 61, very fit, who was out running with the club one evening, went home and just keeled over dead. Heart. Not good. If that happened to me, I don't think anyone would realise until the neighbours complained about the smell. Anyway... I remember when I was around 40 or so and I got into Crossfit (and the time there weren't many Crossfit gyms here so I just followed the workout of the day at my own gym, as much as I could given the equipment). And the official WoD was almost always high intensity. I ended up busting my immune system - I got every bug and virus going that year and had to really dial back my training to just slow and steady basic weights. Took a while to get better again.
Shades, hope you get on top of that knee issue.
I've had a quiet week, not feeling up to much. Bit of a scratchy throat but it never came to anything. I had a lacklustre four miler on Wednesday and then another yesterday. Today I went with Tunde to The Leas (Minster) parkrun in Kent - a mostly flat double out and back along the prom. Felt better than I had midweek but while I felt I was going quickly, I could only manage 29:03 which is pretty poor on a fast course like that. When I ran just over 26 at Worthing early in the year I thought great, this is the start of my comeback, I can get back under 26 this year, but I've never got even remotely close to that again. It's pretty frustrating.
Anyway, I guess I need to recover some more. I've got a 10 miler on the 15th so will see how that goes.
Rcouture, which 10K are you doing?
Louey - I felt your stress of nearly missing your flight today after my experience in August when I didn't even get as far as the airport. 😨
I lived in the Inverness area for a couple of years a very long time ago. I hated the cold and when I met my future husband whilst on holiday in Jersey I was only too happy to pack up and move to warmer weather in Jersey.
Hopefully the wind will be behind you tomorrow, it usually is on that course. Have a good run.
The thing with Zwift is it’s almost like having access to a 24hr piece of gym equipment, but with no one advising you what to do. I’ve heard it mentioned that the training plans are designed for time-starved riders, with too much intensity in the plans (I don’t use the plans - I just do Z2 rides, and then race occasionally). And there are just so many races, official Zwift series that run in parallel with high profile league races, prompts in the game to push it with options to race/beat your own avatar from a previous ride etc. I do think it’s great but it is kind of set up for pushing hard, but I totally agree it’s an individual choice, although I suppose not everyone knows how to train sensibly, and arguably Zwift itself doesn’t really encourage sensible training. Even I find myself pushing extremely hard in races sometimes, harder than I think I would outside. Subconsciously I think ‘I’m at home, after this I can jump straight in the shower and recover’ whereas outside down at the velopark I wouldn’t do that. I do only one race once (sometimes twice) a week though, with pretty much everything else in Z2 and I think of the race as my hard effort of the week.
I didn't know Roglic was leaving Jumbo Visma, but makes sense as they're top heavy right now.
Many online training platforms, or even just training plans are hard core. Individuals need to do their research and train within their own abilities. But punters want results, often unachievable results and are daft enough to think they can achieve that.
Big G-Presume you heard about the coach crash by us? Recently I've got in to a real mindset of anything could happen at any time regardless of what we do in life so enjoy it while you can,and that is another example,fit guy in his 40's looks like he's had a medical incident at the wheel,that zwift guy could have keeled over at a bus stop,there could easily be no relation to the cycle, was just his time.
Just watching the road running championships. Riga looks nice, you did the marathon there I think?
Ian - you're right, it's incidents such as that coach crash that makes us think we just have to make the best of life while we can.
Aren't the other 10k races you do run on certified courses?
Just watched the HM champs,2 great finishes in both races.
I haven't watched the half marathon races yet, having a break after watching the 5k and mile races.