Did very little running in last few months…….losing
motivation, recovering from injury, fantasy football season, busy at work…
Feb, March, April mileage averages were 40k per week. I ran mainly
to avoid additional kilos to this already flabby guy. But now that fantasy football
season is over and won’t start again until August, it’s a good excuse to lift
my fat arse from the couch and start running again
Another good thing that after 3 months of chiropractic work,
I am starting to run pain-free again
Last week jumped into a HM race and ran 91 minutes. For me,
it’s not a bad result given how little I trained in last few months
Always had one eye on going to Australia for a holiday to
escape the summer heat in Asia. Looking at the calendar, there is Gold Coast
marathon in 5 weeks time…
With no long runs under my belt and super low mileage, I can
expect to suffer big time in the marathon, but if I don’t do a marathon this
year (not many race options in the region), I am concerned that my passion in
running will evaporate rapidly
So I might just take a bullet, ready to be humbled and do a
quick and abbreviated marathon training in 5 weeks.
The weakening Aussie dollar also makes the holiday affordable
Based on my HM result, a 3.10-3.15 marathon looks feasible
assuming my endurance is at good levels. Due to short training period, training focus
will be on 'tired legs running', for example running a tempo session, followed by
a long run the following day or do a medium long run with intervals/tempo in
the middle.
Plan is to do 90km weeks for Week 1-3, 70-80km in Week 4,
then 1 week taper in the Sunshine Coast !
Week 1
Mon - 9km easy at
5:00ish pace from home to CCAB track, then 5*1000m averaging 3.53, 2mins walking for recovery, 6km
cool down to home, total 20km
Tue – 33mins very easy along the river
Wed – 2km easy warm up, 6km fartlek alternating 2mins at
3.50s and 4mins at 4.20s, 2k cool down, total 10+km
Thu – 12km easy along the river + Padang grass (av 5.18)
Fri – off, massage
Sat – 1k up, 6 miles race done at tempo effort (av 4.12), 3km
cool down, total 14km. Plan is to tempo the race to put fatique in the legs before doing a long run next day
Sun – 33km long run in 2h50mins (av 5.10) - 1 gel for almost 3 hours of running to burn fats and put the body in glycogen depleted state
Total 95km
2 comments:
Nice work Sling - 91 min HM pretty good considering.
Does this mean there'll be less exciting training/food facebook posts for a few weeks?
Good to hear from you Sling. Yes, 91 isn't too bad. Your best was 84ish? Anyway, 3:10 to 3:15 sounds reasonable to me. Run with the 3:15 bus then drop 'em in the last 15k.
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