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I have just joined and would like to ask a question about training.
I was entered in the London Marathon for this year but could not run because I was knocked off my bicycle at work in January( I am a postman).
This resulted in my having my half my cartlidge removed in May. I have taken up the offer of a place next year and am slowly getting back to my January running level.
My question is that when I was following the London Marathon training guide as printed in their magazine I became very tired. I was wondering whether this was because being a postman and walking between 5 and 8 miles every morning, plus about 4 miles cycling I should be religiously following the programme?
Was I doing too much and not taking into account my energetic job?
I am a fit 56. Has anybody any advice?
I was entered in the London Marathon for this year but could not run because I was knocked off my bicycle at work in January( I am a postman).
This resulted in my having my half my cartlidge removed in May. I have taken up the offer of a place next year and am slowly getting back to my January running level.
My question is that when I was following the London Marathon training guide as printed in their magazine I became very tired. I was wondering whether this was because being a postman and walking between 5 and 8 miles every morning, plus about 4 miles cycling I should be religiously following the programme?
Was I doing too much and not taking into account my energetic job?
I am a fit 56. Has anybody any advice?
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I'm no expert but I think your assessment is probably right - most training programmes don't assume you're doing a significant amount of energetic work too.
Let's face it some of the people running FLM won't be doing the amount of exercise you're doing without the training.
If you're still unsure, you could try posting the question on the training forum and adding "RW" to the start of the thread name - that way those nice people at Runners World will give you the benefit of their advice too.
Good luck