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Training Help Please - mpayne - 05-12-2012
Here's what I've been up to:
Monday 26th rest
Tuesday 27th 11.2km avg HR 141 avg pace 6:15
Wednesday 28th 7.2km avg HR 145 avg pace 5:45
Thursday 29th rest
Friday 30th rest
Saturday 1st 38.5km avg HR 138 avg pace 7:44 (all done on snow covered back country trails!)
Sunday 2nd 13.4km avg HR 137 avg pace 6:09 (was running in freezing rain, but footing was ok if I stuck to the grass or the road and not the walking paths)
Monday 3rd rest
Tuesday 4th rest
Wednesday 5th 8.1km 15 minute W/up, 25 minute tempo at 4:57, 5 minute cooldown - I decided to go with an easyish tempo run (i.e. at a pace I knew I could run, for a time I was comfortable running) in order to get some sort of faster run in.
I'm not sure why I'm having so much trouble with the faster runs (i.e. the intervals I haven't yet been very successful doing). I feel like it's mental more than physical, but am not sure what to do to get past it??
Also, I'm not sure about my weekly mileage - should I be running more?? Since I started training for the marathon, my weeks have been:
Week 1 - 34.7km - hamstring spasm
Week 2 - 62.4km
Week 3 - 52.2km
Week 4 - 70.3km
I'm still having problems with the HR strap. The best solution I've found so far is wearing it below my sportsbra, but I'm still getting some chafing, even from this, even with using some sort of body glide stuff. I've got a smaller (kid's size) garmin old HR strap and a newer all fabric garmin HR strap and both work equally well/badly.
Training Help Please - TheEd - 05-12-2012
a quick one on the heart rate monitor
try putting it over a light t-shirt, I have heard this does work for a number of runners
do not worry too much about the interval sessions, as long as you are simply doing them
the secret behind the 10k programs was to adapt to the 2k session
so for now, focus your mind on the marathon being the event and not the intervals
you certainly do not need to be running more
this is superb:
Saturday 1st 38.5km avg HR 138 avg pace 7:44 (all done on snow covered back country trails!)
don't focus on weekly mileage but instead the necessary individual sessions and then one above is magnificent towards that cause
you looking quite good for the marathon
TheEd