Yesterday
I had to run my first half marathon of this training program or 2 hours which ever came first, since I’d run my last half marathon in 1 hr 55 min on the roads I felt sure I could match that on a machine, no hills to climb and it is easy to set the correct pace rather than running as do on the road with my heart, or more specifically as fast as my heart will let me. However, I had not factored three things, one I’d trained for 5 months for the half marathon, albeit from a standing start, and today I was only 3 weeks into my training program, two the weather was perfect for the half, whereas I was about to do this in a gym in Curacao, and finally three, I had Marathon T’s secret fuel cells to munch on the way, here I had only water.
The running machine started out well enough, but after about 30 minutes the heat got to me, the only way I could continue was to slow the pace down, well below my desired 9min/mile. At an hour my body ached to give up, at 90 minutes I almost did give up, the timer on the running machine appeared to be going backwards, I hate running machines, with 5 minutes to go I had covered only 11 miles, I backed the speed down to walking pace and walked the last five minutes to complete 120 minutes. Exhausted I got off the machine, the picture says it all.
View from the running machine
I had to run my first half marathon of this training program or 2 hours which ever came first, since I’d run my last half marathon in 1 hr 55 min on the roads I felt sure I could match that on a machine, no hills to climb and it is easy to set the correct pace rather than running as do on the road with my heart, or more specifically as fast as my heart will let me. However, I had not factored three things, one I’d trained for 5 months for the half marathon, albeit from a standing start, and today I was only 3 weeks into my training program, two the weather was perfect for the half, whereas I was about to do this in a gym in Curacao, and finally three, I had Marathon T’s secret fuel cells to munch on the way, here I had only water.
The running machine started out well enough, but after about 30 minutes the heat got to me, the only way I could continue was to slow the pace down, well below my desired 9min/mile. At an hour my body ached to give up, at 90 minutes I almost did give up, the timer on the running machine appeared to be going backwards, I hate running machines, with 5 minutes to go I had covered only 11 miles, I backed the speed down to walking pace and walked the last five minutes to complete 120 minutes. Exhausted I got off the machine, the picture says it all.
View from the running machine
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Close to collapse after 2 hours
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