Those of you who know me/ put up with me will know that I have been refraining from committing myself fully to the Frankfurt marathon. Without meaning to sound pessimistic, if I say: "The weather's nice today...", it'll start raining.So, given my slightly jinxed year or so and the fact that I have come to accept that, for now, when I run something is going to hurt, I have been casually sitting on the fence...
So, I am not going to say that I am doing Frankfurt because I don't want to jinx it. However, I shall say that after my performance last weekend at Bristol, I will be 'training for Frankfurt with a view to doing it'.
I ran the Bristol Half Marathon in 77.48. This was a personal best for me by over a minute and a half. Given the injury issues I have had since last May, I was pleasantly surprised. Of course, massive credit to my coach, Nick Anderson, and my physio, Mark Buckingham.
Other than that I have been loving the marathon training. Long runs and long tempo efforts suit me and I am definitely not made for speed! One thing I have had to get used to with marathon training is having one major goal race rather than a racing season. One thing is this meant is that after Bristol, I was pretty much straight back into the training! I was surprised at how well my body has held up to this, although I do seem to be ridiculously hungry this week!
This is what I have done this week:
Monday: 60 mins easy
Tuesday: am - 60 easy, pm - 30 easy
Wednesday: 15 mins marathon pace, 5x1k @ 10k pace, 15 min marathon pace
Thursday: 90 easy
Friday - REST
Tomorrow, I have a rare 5k planned...but perhaps I will keep that quiet too in case the gods of running hear me!
I promise to write a blog post again soon. Until then, keep on running and racing! And if it starts raining when you head out on your run, you can probably blame me...
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