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Don Minquez
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I went to the gym last night and did a stint on the cross trainer followed by a pleasant circuit of weights.
I'm planning a sloooow 5 miles tonight, but is it ok to go for a little 'un on friday?
I'm planning a sloooow 5 miles tonight, but is it ok to go for a little 'un on friday?
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Definitely DONT do any hard running Fri or Sat.
I will still be doing my usual track session on Friday evening but will not push quite as hard. If this suprises you then consider this, my last half came off the back of a hard 5.5 run on the Wednesday before and the normal track session and resulted in a PB! Normally, providing I keep any hard runs controlled a few days before I find that it doesn't bother me.
Hope to see you on Sunday.
Increase the proportion of carbs to about 70% at the expense of fat rather than protein. So pasta with tomato sauces, homemade deep-pan pizza going light on the cheese, spuds, lean meat and veg, bananas, malt loaf, fig rolls, dried fruit, bread of whatever sort you like, breakfast cereals...
But don't get too worried about diet - it's only 13 miles and your legs can easily store enough fuel for 13 miles as long as you're eating enough overall and haev done a spot of training. The most important thing is not to eat anything on the night before, or on race morning, that might upset your guts.
I'm running with my sister, whose 13-mile time in training is about the same as mine (2:20), so we'll either spur one another on or be too busy chinwagging to run properly.
Do you know if we're given something approaching an accurate start-line-to-finish-line time, or should I take a stopwatch?