Sunday, September 03, 2006

Essential Marathon Preparation - Increased Mileage and The Long Run: Part 2

Another 100% week, 8 hours of running and more.

Already before doing the weekend long run I had already run 50 km in 5 hours. The long run was going to be a repeat of last week's colossal effort.

And I started very slowly, so slow that it took 67 minutes to do the first 10 km. I managed to pick the pace up a bit, but felt myself going slower and slower as the miles dragged on.

At the end I managed to haul myself over 32 km in 3 hours 23 mins, an improvement of 1 minute! Really glad that those 100% weeks are over, and now I am in recovery mode for two weeks.

Only 8 more weeks to the Auckland Marathon. Can't hardly wait; hopefully I can do a bit better on the actual event.

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