This week I have rally battled with guilt as I missed training on Tuesday night so had to knock out 10 miles on Wednesday, without excuses or failure of any type. Ok it is very slightly short of 10 miles (9.8miles) and it was fairly slow (72 mins) but we did it. I also did a fartleck on Thursday night which was 1 x 5 mins, 2 x 4 mins, 3 x 3 mins, and 4 x 2 mins with recovery of half the time in between each blast. It felt good, so maybe resting on Tuesday hadnt been such a bad idea. I knew I had to try to push it because that would be my only chance of speedwork last week so I did put effort in up the hills... I did feel at one point that my heart was going to explode. Fortunately it didnt and I managed to put some extra effort in on the 4 x 2 mins which felt weird after weeks of steady marathon pace :o) The guilt (still from missing Tuesday) carried on into Friday evening so I went out and did a gentle 7 miles. My legs felt very tired but I just kept thinking about the mileage... Saturday I rested and then yesterday I did the Bury 20.
Now, I had honestly forgotten about that hill at 9 miles.. how on earth could I forget that BEAST! Yes, it was an absolute BEAST of a hill and I tippy toed up it looking at the top all the way and was glad when it was done. All the way I kept thinking, "London is flat, London is flat". It my way of coping with the fact that I might be losing minutes on the slow climb but that because London is flat I wont have to lose those mins over the first 20 miles of the 26.2. Does that make sense? Its Monday, give me a break!
So I completed Bury in 2:23 something. Ive downloaded my times and my slowest mile was mile 18 when I did 7 mins and 27 seconds. My fastest mile was mile 3 in 6 mins and 34 seconds. Hmm, I think I know what my problem is.. I start too fast. Thats no new to me cos Ive done it for as long as I can remember but the good news is that I started slowing a fair bit at mile 18... whereas looking at my last couple of months of running, I start slowing at about mile 14/15... so maybe if I continue with the training on marathon day , Ill start slowing at about 24 miles.. and I can just hang in there to the finish line?! Forever the optimist?!!
So plans for this week.. Run Tuesday, Weds and long run Friday. Cant run Saturday or Sunday so this week will be a "light week" with regards to training and my legs will be extremely happy about that... little does it realise what I have in store for it instead though. ;o) ha ha (laugh wicked witch style)
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