When reading a jogging thread a few months back there was some people on there saying they were running this years marathon.Just wanted to see how everyone's training is going?I did a 12mile run on Tuesday my longest run so far and my back locked up?Still struggling now!Hoping it will ease soon and nothing to worry about as need to start running again soon.
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I'm doing better than I thought I would be though and lost a stone in 2 months too!
I ran 16miles on monday, I had to dramatically rejig my marathon training as I lost the whole of january because of a calf injury so have through my original plan out of the window and have spent a month slowly building the mileage back up after monday I am reasonably confident of being ready although my plans for 3hours40 are long gone, will be happy with 4hours10 now. good luck to all of you running this year
If you see a bloke with a really bad limp who looks proper knackered chances are it's me...
Good luck with the back btw. I've found that as the mileage goes up you get more and more niggles like this. A couple of days rest from training and anti-inflamatories should help ease it.
Up to 3:10 last weekend so should be somewhere around 19 miles by my reckoning. I haven’t ran a marathon since 2005 and somewhere along the way seem to have lost about a minute and a half a mile :-(
Physio booked for Weds evening to hopefully get an idea of the problem and whether a few weeks off will be enough to recover.
Far from ideal, but if I can be confident that by resting it now means that I can start pain-free on the 22nd, then I think I will be still be doing it.
Good luck to all who are running.
How I'm going to get 30,000 people running in front of me to sit down is a mystery...
Well done everyone still plodding on!
Your advice about not running for more than an hour is of course ballcocks for anyone running a marathon, from Paula Radcliffe to Jade Goody (in fact she's a good example who probably followed your advice and ended up in hospital).
You do know it's in 4 weeks time, which is why everyone is getting up to their maximum training distance?
I've been running/racing for more than 25 years, have been coached by some very well respected & qualified coaches and done a bit myself. I've read hundreds of articles and books on the subject and seen more race training programmes than I could put a figure on.
I have never seen a plan suggesting that you don't need to run for more than an hour in training even if you were already at a high level of fitness.
Frankly, when people are at this point in their training they don't really need someone posting that are effectively wasting their time (especially when they are not!).
How about little encouragment instead?
1. I was only 21 at the time so my body was pretty much at it's physical peak
and (this is the main reason)
2. I was already training 5 times a week for other running I was doing at the time so that whilst I was not doing the mileage I think would have got me a very good (I am talking sub 3 hours) time I was perfectly able to cope with the rigours of a marathon because of my base fitness.
For you average individual doing a marathon they would not be training at the intensity I was back then so would need to build up their training a lot more than that to get through a marathon. That said I am pretty sure that if you have been training for around 4-5 months before a big marathon you should get through it with a long run of no more than 15-18 miles (although it will be tough). I think a lot of it depends on your mental outlook. If you are a stubborn determined person then sheer bloody mindedness will get you round even if you are undertrained. Someone less mentally strong will require the re-assurance that have run at least one run of 20 miles plus to ensure they finish.
I agree that overtraining is very easy for marathons especially if you are not generally very fit. This is also my problem with a lot of the generic marathon training plans out there. To me, a plan for this sort of event really needs to take account of the individual and for that you need a reasonably knowledgable coach. This is obviously difficult so it would be much nicer if the plans supplied to runners included a lot more on teaching them how to assess how hard a particular run is so to better tweak a plan to their needs.
For example I really hate slow running so I tailor my plans to lower mileage but higher intensity work, although I will still get one or two 18-20 mile run in, but they are, to me, more about getting my mind right to run at the pace I want to race at.
for those of you running london it is a bit late for me to offer training advice, but if anyone want some help with a training programme for future races then let me know I am happy to help.
I have known people who because of their background in endurance sport/good genetics/age/bloody mindedless, etc are able to 'wing it' and turn in a decent run on the day and I'd guess HG would fall into this group. Lucky bugger.
For the rest of us mortals the mental side of it is just as important as is the physical and there is no way of getting your head around running through the wall than doing it in training.