Back to the Treadmill....

Marathon T

Due to commitments with birthdays and evenings out, this week I have taken to running at lunchtime. This means I have slipped off the schedule slightly – but have still managed to get some miles in my legs.

Monday Treadmill:
5 mins warm up @ 7.5mph
40 mins @ 8.0mph

Tuesday Treadmill:
30 mins @ 7.5mph
30 mins @ 8.0mph

The runs felt steady, I wasn’t falling off the treadmill at the end – but both were decent workouts. It certainly feels like I am making progress.

Running outside this evening, I have a sprint session planned. I might also make the gym at lunch for a gentle 4 miles, just to keep the mileage up. I am now trying to keep a consistent 30+ mile week going until the race.

Marathon T snr is now fully recovered, and has started to think about his next 26 miler (despite his protestations of “Never again” on Sunday). He has now started to say that he doesn’t want to finish his Marathon career feeling as bad as he did on Sunday; he wants to go out on a high in his final race. Not sure when or where the last one will be – but I have agreed to run it with him, and as he has completed London and Paris, New York has a nice ring to it…

But I am seriously getting ahead of myself. I still have to see if I can get myself round half the distance (in four weeks) before I even begin to think about a full Marathon. Also, to be honest it made my knees ache just watching the FLM on Sunday around the 19 mile mark. I’m not sure how I would cope with that amount of pain.

The other members of Team MoFo have been conspicuously quiet on the subject of running the full distance – I’m sure they’ll all feel very different when they have experienced the euphoria of completing the half…..

Marathon T