Half marathon coming up and more....

It's been a while since I updated last.

The class last week Tuesday actually was well timed. As I had missed out on my interval session, the class had sprint intervals as part of the workout.

Then Wednesday I did some real intervals. It's amazing how much lack of sleep affects your running.

Apart from training obviously, pre-run nutrition, fuel, hydration (before and during) and sleep are super important.

Saturday I had only a 75 minute run to do and Rachael asked me to really push hard.

Right now, with the tempo runs I'm doing on my long runs, I'm still far off the 5h30 I want to finish the marathon in.
It's more likely to be 6h30, which is really not what I want.

So pushing I went. The first few minutes in a run are always hard. So after 12 minutes I decided to take a short break, drink, eat a few bites, and walk 3 minutes. Which made me think I should push hard again for 12 minutes and walk 3, and keep going like that.

I managed a better pace. Still slightly slower than the pace I need for my 5h30 marathon.

This Sunday I am running the Hampton Court half marathon. I've done one half marathon before, and obviously would like to beat that time.
Let's see what happens on the day.... Here's hoping it stays dry. The weather forecast is quite mixed, so fingers crossed.

And today, I've seen my next months programme.
I was a little worried, but seemingly because of the lengths I've ran up to now, it's actually not that bad.

Most runs, I've done the distance before, so I can now really start working on pushing the pace. Which will give me much more confidence comes marathon day.

The short interval sessions with the sprints that I really enjoyed are gone now. And replaced by medium length tempo runs, so I can really push the pace.

Let's see what happens in the coming few months.

Today, I've baked my energy snacks for Sunday and the coming few weeks.
I don't like drinking energy drinks or gels, so these will do very nicely I think.