Marathon Challenge

So the marathon challenge didn’t pan out the way I wanted, what with injuries and all, but yesterday I ran the Perth City To Surf Marathon and set a new, 53 minute PR of 5:15:26! Three weeks ago I set a new 30km PR of 3:39, which I also broke yesterday with a 3:28:36. I […]

With my first week of marathon specific training in the books, this is starting to get real. I’m finding, even after only one week, that faster paces are easier and I’m having a harder time keeping slow enough for my base pace. Because my garmin strap is broken and the new one is still on

Oh.my.gosh. I forgot how much intervals make you hurt all over afterwards (and burn during)! Ran 12 x 400m intervals at 126 seconds (5:15 mins/km pace – hey that’s very fast for me!) with jog recovery. Very happy with how I did. The interval times were: 122 121 120 118 129 128 128 124 128

So I’ve gotten through the base building section of my training plan. Last week I finished off a 50km week with a late (9:30pm) 6km run. Feeling pretty fit, despite not quite reaching my goal of a couple of 60km+ weeks. However, I’m in good shape to take on the marathon specific workouts of intervals,

We’ve had a lot of rain (most in 9 years) so perhaps that’s why my Garmin was so screwy today. I had to turn it to time only when it showed (I was running an even pace) 10:14, 4:32, 2:04, 2:38, 2:15 etc. Um, what? I wish I could run that fast! I worked out