Week Three and I am officially starting to feel the fatigue of marathon training . Halfway through the week I started to develop a small case of planter facsitis. Seeing that I am currently running in the same pair of shoes that I wore for the Seattle Marathon, in addition to a month of heavy training prior, and two months of running after, and I am now a little over due to get a new pair of running shoes. You would think that I would learn to switch out my shoes before such injuries occur, but yet I am the queen of procrastination!
Lets do a quick recap:
Wednesday (”Canova” speed intervals): A new spin on our typical 800m intervals, with a recovery that was a little faster then normal. It felt more like a was a cross between a speed and tempo workout in the end. I completed 8, and felt encouragingly strong afterwards.
Thursday: What was initially an easy run, looks more like a longer marathon goal pace run when looking back. When training for Seattle I did a couple of these at distances up to 12 miles. Runs like this definitely increase my confidence of running longer at this pace, but with my slight foot pain and increasing of mileage it may have affected my energy going into my tempo run.
Saturday (4 x 1 mile tempo w/1 min recovery): Tempo Friday moved to a new hour! Because of a social gathering on Friday I ended up doing my tempo on Saturday morning. As fatigue started to set in, what was suppose to be 4 x one mile tempo quickly turned into 3 x one mile. I started a little too fast, and quickly burnt myself out after the first two, and had to slow down and rest before doing a third, which was very slowed down compared the first two. To say the least I definitely over extended myself and may have to re-evaluate the speed that I am doing my tempo runs at!
Tomorrow is the Long run, and given that i am a little sore and tired going into it I am a little worried. The good new is that it is an EASY long run.
The major lesson that I always ended up being reminded of: planning of my runs and pacing myself is essential!
Yeah I totally agree with what your saying…it’s def correct…