Evening gents, so thats my 5day post Marathon running hiatus over! I always like to switch of post race, but 5days without a run.......going stir crazy already!
Belated congrats to all the CP boys, esp SG! Go on fella! Some race you had there!
So Amsterdam, 2.35.28, not exactly what I was looking for but not to disappointed, went out with a group of 8, conditions were pretty grim, wet & windy bang on target at the halfway point (1.16:xx) kept the group going to 18 where we broke up, dropped off the pace between 21-24M before having a word with myself and picked it back up to finish strong, great to finish on the track aswell which i pretty much had to myself so gave it a decent sprint over the final 300M for the benefit of my mates in the crowd, great to finish and then have 2 club mates, my mara training buddy and UG all finish within the next few mins! Usually feel destroyed at the end of a mara, felt fine after this one!? In hindsight there’s a couple of areas that let me down
1: I did way to much work leading the group out over the first 16M, prob spent about 12M of that at the front, in those windy conditions it prob took more out of me than i realised to keep to race pace.
2: Could’ve done with some more quality over the later stages of my LSR’s, work commitments etc meant i didnt get in some of the quality i wanted.
Game on for next year though, learned some good lessons this year and if nothing else its given me the confidence that I WILL get to go sub 2.30 on the right day!
Bus: I train in Bostons, there the heaviest trainers i use now, the latest versions are not as light as the original so you can def get away with using them throughout training, also race in Adios, the 2 together are a great pairing, cant big them up enough! Size wise, def half a size up.
GSR this weekend then lads? I’ll be watching with my feet up ready for some forum spotting!
