Saturday, July 01, 2006

Essential Marathon Preparation - The Long Run: Part 3

This time I embarked on a 22 km run around Massey, Hobsonville and West Harbour, an extension of the course I did last week. This time it took 133 mins, with some walking in between. So if I ever ran the half marathon, I'd expect to complete it within that time. That is around and over 6 mins/km. Hopefully I can cut it down to 120 mins, though not any time soon though.

And I went very slowly. The calves were definitely hurting, and I started fatiguing near the end of the run, forcing me to long bouts of walking. At one time, I was talking to myself to complete the course. "C'mon you can do it, nearly there, just a few hundred more metres", something along those lines.

Put it simply, it was a very hard session. I wonder if I can last 3 hours.

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