SarahDisney
So ... Yeah
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- Jul 23, 2014
Thanks for sharing this. Because it helps us all realize that some days or weeks or months or even years are just tough. And we're not alone in having struggles.Anyway ... I'm having a rough week and it seems like lots of people here are having rough times right now and the world is having a rough time and my heart hurts.
Anyway ... I'm having a rough week and it seems like lots of people here are having rough times right now and the world is having a rough time and my heart hurts.
Anyway ... I'm having a rough week and it seems like lots of people here are having rough times right now and the world is having a rough time and my heart hurts.
What is it with this week?? At least it's Friday, so here's to hoping for a better week next!
Thanks for sharing this. Because it helps us all realize that some days or weeks or months or even years are just tough. And we're not alone in having struggles.
Totally agree. Worst week ever
Was talking to my dad and he said that if he ever ran a marathon again (note to self: try to get him to enter next year's NYC marathon lottery?), he'd want to do a 27-mile run before just so that he knew mentally that he could do it. I understand the sentiment, but for me that's like 5-6 hours and it would kill my entire day. But that's really what I've been struggling with here - balancing time with mental preparedness. I have no doubt that I can be physically prepared for the race without a 26-mile run. But mentally ... I dunno. It's tough for sure. I've struggled a lot with not being mentally prepared for new goals.
Three marathons for me and I've never surpassed 20 miles in training. I was just telling @jennamfeo - you'll get to race day and there's all the excitement and adrenaline that helps. But you'll also bust through a wall and it will come a point where you realize you're going to do the dang thing ... and your heart just kinda takes over and guides you to the finish line and you feel like nothing can touch you.
I have one less marathon than Keels but also never done more than 20 in training.Three marathons for me and I've never surpassed 20 miles in training. I was just telling @jennamfeo - you'll get to race day and there's all the excitement and adrenaline that helps. But you'll also bust through a wall and it will come a point where you realize you're going to do the dang thing ... and your heart just kinda takes over and guides you to the finish line and you feel like nothing can touch you.
I have one less marathon than Keels but also never done more than 20 in training.
I'd live to say I saw the Browns win, but I was asleep. Had to be up by 4 to get a run in so oh well. It's probably the only win this season.
Also, I get why you are currently absent, but I just wanted to say I miss you on the running thread. I always liked and valued your responses and insight there.
I'm planning on continuing barre3 twice per week (she says 5 seconds after she says more rest...). I think at some point I want to start doing it on Sunday after my long run ... we'll see what Coach has to say about that.
My preference is still max one hard run per week, but ... I'm slightly flexible. Again, we'll see what works.
As of right now, the schedule that I think will work for me is 30-minute runs during the week, with max one 45 minute run every two weeks, for the first month, then moving on to 45 minutes with one max 1 hr run after we change the clocks. I am willing to be slightly flexible, especially if some life things happen, but this is something I think I can do without falling into the exhaustion issue I've been dealing with lately. One of my focuses (foci?) for this training cycle really needs to be preventing the exhaustion that has been causing so many problems for me. I need more sleep and more rest.
I would like to go to 16 miles as my longest run (well really I'd like to go over 20, maybe even to 26, but ain't nobody got time for that, so I guess I'll have to just trust everyone who says I don't have to go the full distance in training, even though that hasn't always been the case for me in the past). It will be hard to do this and stick to the 3-hour time limit. With my current paces, running 3 mi WU + 10 mi M Tempo + 3 mi CD would be just over 3 hours (3:04), but that's a lot of miles at tempo. We'll see what happens with the paces next plan ... maybe it will be doable.
I'm nervous that this marathon plan will be too long. The longest plan I've done with Coach Billy was the plan for my 7-miler, which was like 12-14 weeks (I promise, I opened up the plan and counted the actual number of week 2 minutes ago, and then I forgot), and that was the one I struggled with the most. Other plans ranged from 4 weeks (just the once, and I technically wrote that plan) to 8 weeks. I'm seeing some of my friends struggle with long plans right now. With all that, I'm worried that the 14-15 weeks of this plan (I may be counting wrong) will be too much for me. I'm wondering if maybe breaking it up into two 7-8 week plans would be a better idea ... but I'm not entirely sure how we would do that. It would probably mean finding another goal race somewhere towards the end of November. But I also don't know if that would then interfere with marathon training. I dunno. This is just another thing I have to think about before we start on the plan.
Doable. Although I probably wouldn't do it after the runs longer than 120 min. But you could try and see how you feel about it. I generally recommend with these "shorter" long runs to go out and about your day. Once the long run is done, go shopping, go for a walk.
Definitely doable.
Definitely doable. It'll certainly depend on the number of days per week. As we aim to try and maintain balance amongst the long run and the rest of the week.
So 10 miles at M Tempo (10:47) would be 1:47:53. That's a pretty long M Tempo segment as most do max about 60-90 min. So doing 108 would be a big step up in difficulty. But I can understand the mental side of things. So since it seems like the next point revolves around the length of the plan, then how about making this 16 mile (with 10 at M Tempo) near the mid-point of the plan. A short build to it. Then run it. Then a bit of recovery. Then a build back up to the marathon. It'll get you your mental edge of a 16 mile 3 hour training run, but also allow you additional recovery before the actual big event. Thoughts?
See above on a method of splitting the plan in two parts. I wouldn't go much less than 8 weeks as that seems to be the area of cardiovascular adaptations.