My training went way off the rails. Had been doing great, including 57 days of running in a row. Was a real good base coming into April, and then I caught that wicked chest cold that's been going around up here.
Still managed to train through most of it, only missing a few days here and there. But then I changed jobs and it took more time than I anticipated, to the point where 2 weeks ago, I didn't run.
Next Sunday will be my third marathon [Sugarloaf]; pretty sure it's gonna hurt, but would like to mitigate the pain as much as possible. This is the only marahon course I've run, so I'm familiar with it: first 3 miles are dead-flat; next seven are climbing, but nothing extreme just a general up; then a 1/3 mile or so that's an intense drop; the rest of the race you loose something stupid like 900+ feet through some great rollers. Great run.
So here's my issues:
- Was running mid to high 40 mpw, nothing under 30 since February. No swimming and not enough riding to cpunt as anything.
- Chest cold knocked the shit outta me.
- Have several 15~ish milers, but topped out at 18; no 20+ like I prefer. The 18 I was ready to quit at 14.
- Ran a couple of halfs with longish runs the day before: one the day after an 11 miler and one trail half after a 15; felt really good after both (really good being relative... was certainly wiped out after bpth weekends).
- Only ran about 30 this week, and 15 of those were Saturday. Managed to run at what I project to be my marathon pace for 12 of those.
- I'm feeling good, for the most part, but tweaked something in my left hip playing basketball with the boy last week. It doesn't seem to bother while running, but I havent put any speed to it.
My other two marathon times were: 3:37 [8:17 pace] and 3:29 [7:59]. I'd thought I'd shoot for 3:15 this year [7:27], but that's obviously out.
My thought was to drop to an 8 min mile and just cruise it, hopefully getting down under 10k and feeling ok enough to *maybe* kick it up a notch.
My questions: Am I being reasonble? Should I back that time off a little more? Should I just HTFU and run? Should I just relax and take what comes ro me on race day? What should I do in the next couple of days for runs: any speed or keep it relaxed with just some pick-ups?
Any ideas you got, I'm willing to listen!
Appreciate any help you might be able to give... Thank you much!
- Jeff
Still managed to train through most of it, only missing a few days here and there. But then I changed jobs and it took more time than I anticipated, to the point where 2 weeks ago, I didn't run.
Next Sunday will be my third marathon [Sugarloaf]; pretty sure it's gonna hurt, but would like to mitigate the pain as much as possible. This is the only marahon course I've run, so I'm familiar with it: first 3 miles are dead-flat; next seven are climbing, but nothing extreme just a general up; then a 1/3 mile or so that's an intense drop; the rest of the race you loose something stupid like 900+ feet through some great rollers. Great run.
So here's my issues:
- Was running mid to high 40 mpw, nothing under 30 since February. No swimming and not enough riding to cpunt as anything.
- Chest cold knocked the shit outta me.
- Have several 15~ish milers, but topped out at 18; no 20+ like I prefer. The 18 I was ready to quit at 14.
- Ran a couple of halfs with longish runs the day before: one the day after an 11 miler and one trail half after a 15; felt really good after both (really good being relative... was certainly wiped out after bpth weekends).
- Only ran about 30 this week, and 15 of those were Saturday. Managed to run at what I project to be my marathon pace for 12 of those.
- I'm feeling good, for the most part, but tweaked something in my left hip playing basketball with the boy last week. It doesn't seem to bother while running, but I havent put any speed to it.
My other two marathon times were: 3:37 [8:17 pace] and 3:29 [7:59]. I'd thought I'd shoot for 3:15 this year [7:27], but that's obviously out.
My thought was to drop to an 8 min mile and just cruise it, hopefully getting down under 10k and feeling ok enough to *maybe* kick it up a notch.
My questions: Am I being reasonble? Should I back that time off a little more? Should I just HTFU and run? Should I just relax and take what comes ro me on race day? What should I do in the next couple of days for runs: any speed or keep it relaxed with just some pick-ups?
Any ideas you got, I'm willing to listen!
Appreciate any help you might be able to give... Thank you much!
- Jeff