UPDATE 20 mins xtrainer core exercises stretching 6 miles in the afternoon glorious day nice sunny day but a bit breezy! 10 mins xtrainer stretches leg hanging crunches 20 x 2 Ice bath 20 mins urghhhh the pain it was painful too! 6 miles easy run again then stretching warm bath this time and stretching again. Not run yet! but will do a double run again today.... Thoughts are after speaking to my coach well hmmmmm, It is session day today, now I was thinking of maybe doing it but not going to now......... 1. My left leg is still sore not sore injured just tight and sore 2. I dont want to go into mile reps and get injured 3. this week was going to be a high mileage week huh not happened 4. I am not too bummed about this as follows LOL a- When I did mile reps last week it hammered me big time b- The days after I felt awful c- 22 miles at 7.34 pace felt good till those last 4 miles they hurt d- I seemed to have improved hugely with my fitness e- my heart rate on the xtrainer for 20 mins yesterday level 5 was down 106-108 bpm usually at 118-120 after 10 mins on the xtrainer! f- I can maintain my fitness level doing doubles and easy runs for a few days g- If I did push myself I will either break my legs or overtrain Does any of that make sense, I have trained pretty darn hard, and listening to my body has made allot more sense than just sticking to the plan, If I go try to do a session when My body internally physically and legs arent ready I will either be really ill or injured....... I know mentally I can accept this process although previously I would be panicking as Im not sticking to the plan but on past experience whats more importan 1- being injured and not running but having great times in training huh 2- going into the marathon over-trained 3- going into the marathon slightly under-trained I have reached a plateau in my training obviously as my fitness/heart rate has improved by over 10bp min my easy runs are faster 7.30 easy rather than 8 min pace and quite easily run at 7min pace although a sweat develops after 2-3 miles which I accept. Even if I treat the next two days as double days with short easy runs I will still do over 60 miles this week so not too bad. Happy days Folks I will blog later on my actual runs but Im trying to put this down just to probably help me mentally more than anything :-)
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