Curious as to what Slowtwitch thinks of my current training regime.
Working towards a December marathon - didn't run for a few years (was a strong cyclist, so focused on that), previous bests were a 19m 5k, 41m 10k, 1h28m half. Have never run a marathon, so wanted to tick that off.
Living in Singapore, so there's the heat to take into account.
I am about 3 months into a build, and have managed to string together a number of ~80km (50m) weeks. As it stands, it looks like this:
M - 1h group run (normally a hard 20-30m in the middle, with 15m really easy either side).
T - AM - F45 strength class - PM - 50m easy (high zone 2 / low zone 3),
W - AM - 1h20 - 1h30m easy - PM - 30-40m easy
T - F45 strength class
F - 1h interval set (sometimes hills, sometimes efforts - lots of 400's, some 800's, not too much longer than that. Hill efforts normally 30s)
S - off
S - long run easy.
Have managed to get the long run up to 3 hours, aiming for something between 3:30 and 4:00 for the mara (although, I really just want to finish).
So, my queries:
Do I need more miles? I think I am running often enough to avoid the typical "cheating" with the long run for distance, but I am concerned about injury. I don't want to risk blowing something just to slip in another 10-15km.
Should I be doing more hard running? At present, I just have the one hard set but I have been able to hit that one pretty hard. I am also well tired by the time I get to Thursday, with the strength class always being a struggle.
Should I drop the gym? I don't really want to, because I am enjoying it and I think the F45 atmosphere means you (a) do the work, and (b) aren't able to bitch out and use tiny weights (always gotta compete / trainers push you).
Anything else I should be aware of? The heat here makes it really, really hard to get through runs outside, so the easy running requires me to watch heart rate pretty closely.
Thanks in advance!
Working towards a December marathon - didn't run for a few years (was a strong cyclist, so focused on that), previous bests were a 19m 5k, 41m 10k, 1h28m half. Have never run a marathon, so wanted to tick that off.
Living in Singapore, so there's the heat to take into account.
I am about 3 months into a build, and have managed to string together a number of ~80km (50m) weeks. As it stands, it looks like this:
M - 1h group run (normally a hard 20-30m in the middle, with 15m really easy either side).
T - AM - F45 strength class - PM - 50m easy (high zone 2 / low zone 3),
W - AM - 1h20 - 1h30m easy - PM - 30-40m easy
T - F45 strength class
F - 1h interval set (sometimes hills, sometimes efforts - lots of 400's, some 800's, not too much longer than that. Hill efforts normally 30s)
S - off
S - long run easy.
Have managed to get the long run up to 3 hours, aiming for something between 3:30 and 4:00 for the mara (although, I really just want to finish).
So, my queries:
Do I need more miles? I think I am running often enough to avoid the typical "cheating" with the long run for distance, but I am concerned about injury. I don't want to risk blowing something just to slip in another 10-15km.
Should I be doing more hard running? At present, I just have the one hard set but I have been able to hit that one pretty hard. I am also well tired by the time I get to Thursday, with the strength class always being a struggle.
Should I drop the gym? I don't really want to, because I am enjoying it and I think the F45 atmosphere means you (a) do the work, and (b) aren't able to bitch out and use tiny weights (always gotta compete / trainers push you).
Anything else I should be aware of? The heat here makes it really, really hard to get through runs outside, so the easy running requires me to watch heart rate pretty closely.
Thanks in advance!