Here's my situation: I haven't raced a marathon in 5 years (3:45 PR at my last race) and because I did not have a very spectacular 2017 with triathlon racing, I chose to revisit the marathon in the hopes of at least getting a PR to end my year on a high note. Things were going well until 2 weeks ago when my lungs quit on me basically shelving my training for the last 11 days. Finally got back on the bike today with hopes of slowly getting back to longer runs by next week.
This is my question: I was targeting the Toronto Waterfront Marathon in 6 weeks with a goal of 3:15-3:20. I have consistently put in 40-45 kms per week since May which is higher mileage than what I trained for my previous marathons (30-40 kms and only towards then end of training). I was planning on hitting 50-55 kms in the next 3 weeks but I will have to now scale that back. All of my easy runs are at 5:00-5:15 per km.
Should I consider running the half marathon instead? Re-evaluate my marathon goal time to account for 2-3 missed big weeks of training? Or say screw it and stick to the plan and see what happens?
I'm counting on the wisdom of random strangers on the internet to help me out
This is my question: I was targeting the Toronto Waterfront Marathon in 6 weeks with a goal of 3:15-3:20. I have consistently put in 40-45 kms per week since May which is higher mileage than what I trained for my previous marathons (30-40 kms and only towards then end of training). I was planning on hitting 50-55 kms in the next 3 weeks but I will have to now scale that back. All of my easy runs are at 5:00-5:15 per km.
Should I consider running the half marathon instead? Re-evaluate my marathon goal time to account for 2-3 missed big weeks of training? Or say screw it and stick to the plan and see what happens?
I'm counting on the wisdom of random strangers on the internet to help me out