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Reflections On 5 Weeks To Willy Marathon
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Caterpillar
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23 April 2011
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5 weeks to go to the Sri Chinmoy Williamstown Marathon, and into the business end of the 3rd mesocycle of the Pfitzinger 18week 87-113km/wk program.
1. Seriously struggled with the back to back hard days entailing a 10km race followed by a 30km long run, which felt like the last quarter of a marathon. Doing the race in the DS Racers probably didn't help, and everything was sore, stiff and tired for longer than I would have liked.
Probably took a good 10 days to recover, a sign of my old age. I won't be doing that again in a while. Instead of a race or time trial on a Saturday, I'll do a slightly longer threshold paced run on Friday, then recovery run on Saturday, and a slightly longer long run on Sunday. In fact, I may stick to a challenging Friday threshold run until the taper.
2. Instead of the 5x600m intervals for this week as per the schedule on week 4 (to go), I did 5x1200m, and plan to 4x1600m next week. I still have a week up my sleeve, so may do 6x1600 the following week.
3. Have noticed that the 'sweet spot' for my ASICS 21xx is somewhere between 10k and 50km. That's when I seem to be fastest. So the plan for race day is to run in almost brand new 21xx.
4. Have done one Sunday long run in the Kayano's and I wasn't as slow as I had expected, given their extra weight. Won't be able to quantify the difference until I've done a few more long runs in them.
5. Still on track for a faster race than my last 3 marathons, barring injury or extreme weather conditions. Hard to say by how much at this stage. Will try to crunch some numbers during the taper.
Only 2 solid weeks to go before taper.
1. Seriously struggled with the back to back hard days entailing a 10km race followed by a 30km long run, which felt like the last quarter of a marathon. Doing the race in the DS Racers probably didn't help, and everything was sore, stiff and tired for longer than I would have liked.
Probably took a good 10 days to recover, a sign of my old age. I won't be doing that again in a while. Instead of a race or time trial on a Saturday, I'll do a slightly longer threshold paced run on Friday, then recovery run on Saturday, and a slightly longer long run on Sunday. In fact, I may stick to a challenging Friday threshold run until the taper.2. Instead of the 5x600m intervals for this week as per the schedule on week 4 (to go), I did 5x1200m, and plan to 4x1600m next week. I still have a week up my sleeve, so may do 6x1600 the following week.
3. Have noticed that the 'sweet spot' for my ASICS 21xx is somewhere between 10k and 50km. That's when I seem to be fastest. So the plan for race day is to run in almost brand new 21xx.
4. Have done one Sunday long run in the Kayano's and I wasn't as slow as I had expected, given their extra weight. Won't be able to quantify the difference until I've done a few more long runs in them.
5. Still on track for a faster race than my last 3 marathons, barring injury or extreme weather conditions. Hard to say by how much at this stage. Will try to crunch some numbers during the taper.
Only 2 solid weeks to go before taper.
