14-10-2018, 02:52 PM
Just checking in. One week to go until the Marathon.
A good training week this week with marathon paced efforts during 40-50min runs on Tues (5k mp), Thurs (7.5k mp) and Sunday (3k mp) averaging <140bpm and feeling great.
Marathon pace looks from these workouts to be floating around 3:40-43, but I think I'm going to really concentrate on keeping the HR <140 for the first 21k, and under <150 until 30k, no matter what. The past 2 marathon's I've ended up 145-155 quite early on trying to hold pace... which has not been ending well!
Weight is still ~75kg (vs. 77-79 in previous marathons) and the cold I've had for about 3 weeks appears to be coming to an end
A good training week this week with marathon paced efforts during 40-50min runs on Tues (5k mp), Thurs (7.5k mp) and Sunday (3k mp) averaging <140bpm and feeling great.
Marathon pace looks from these workouts to be floating around 3:40-43, but I think I'm going to really concentrate on keeping the HR <140 for the first 21k, and under <150 until 30k, no matter what. The past 2 marathon's I've ended up 145-155 quite early on trying to hold pace... which has not been ending well!
Weight is still ~75kg (vs. 77-79 in previous marathons) and the cold I've had for about 3 weeks appears to be coming to an end