Shades Marathon Training

I can work from a London office, so was aiming to get to Expo on Thurs or Fri when there'll hopefully be fewer people, meeting up is a great idea too !!

Thurs April 18th works for me, any good?

either day works for me. i'll go with whatever ends up more popular.

McMillan always has a 90 sec LSR range going from MP to MP+90 iirc. It is however roughly the right pace for a marathon based on that half time.

Mamafox, yes I will do your paces later today

Big G - you plan looks fine.  Re the 10k I would suggest racing it as long as you feel like doing so at the time

molly - I'm sure that was just a bad run, it will make you stronger

Khanivore - am looking forward to reading your report later and I will look at your splits.   I'm no longer using McMillan for training paces as some of them IMHO are too fast, I'll do you paces later and see how they compare.

bootsie - I believe Ballycotton is one of the best races to spectate

Slowkoala - that's fine it you want to keep an equal pace all the way round and will be good for you to run with your team mate...I bet you beat him!

I know I am nerdy when it comes to running......so LOL at you lot at weighing the sachets of porridge.

I would suggest on long run or race day that you eat as much porridge as you want/can take on board.   Ideally you should be looking to try and get a 600 calorie breakfast in before a marathon!!

marathon molly wrote (see)

Emmy - I think it was just a duff run which happens now & again. Fingers crossed!

I had mine this morning I ended up turning home 1 1/2 miles early because I felt so shocking. I'm trying to be positive and be glad that I got out there anyway.

Khanivore wrote (see)

marathon molly would you like me to weigh the contents of a sachet for you?

 

I can already tell you... Yes Shades - I'm that sad. It's between 39-41g per sachet. The difference is dependent upon which one i have (e.g. golden syrup weighs less than blueberry and apple).

The milk that you put in the sachet is 125ml/130ml (depends on how you hold the sachet).

Emmy - sorry to hear you had a bad run, are you feeling tired?

LOL at the porridge sachets.  I've tried the sachet ones and they're OK but couldn't have the flavoured and I prefer mine made with water.  

eating as much porridge as i can manage would NOT be a good idea here And erm them quakers instant sachet things, i er use 2 and still dont really feel full afterwards

Hi All,

Still suffering with my calfs, been 2 weeks and no running. I'm starting to panic now as the VLM is getting closer and my one of my calfs is so painful. Please help, I'm desperate!

SHADES wrote (see)

Emmy - sorry to hear you had a bad run, are you feeling tired?

LOL at the porridge sachets.  I've tried the sachet ones and they're OK but couldn't have the flavoured and I prefer mine made with water.  

I'm not sure to be honest. I think it's a general tiredness but also a bad day feeling. I use the sachets on 'normal' days but make it with soya milk and for race days I try to use 'normal' oats.

Keith M Stuart wrote (see)

eating as much porridge as i can manage would NOT be a good idea here And erm them quakers instant sachet things, i er use 2 and still dont really feel full afterwards

Lol! You're truly an eating machine!! 2 and you're NOT full?!

shades its beautiful!

lucy locks, please done panic.  Every marathon i've done I have had to take 4 weeks off around this time because of injury and still did fine in the marathon.  You will be absolutely fine!

Not resting too much as horses to be mucked out and cross training .. but foot still niggling but running the 5km on saturday so will see how that goes!

Molly - one sachet of quakers golden syrup flavour porridge is 36g (dry). If you add 180ml of semi-skimmed milk you get 215kcal. Hope that helps.

Lucy a sports massage really helped me with my sore side-of-calf muscle problem. Maybe it would be worth having a go? I know how you feel. It's a terrible feeling. All I can offer is the advice of listening to bootsie. Panicing won't help and you have done most of your training already anyway. I ended up not running properly for 5-6 weeks very recently and it doesn't actually seem to have hurt my ability to run at all.

Emmy really sorry to hear about your bad run. 

I would be happy to go to the Expo on Wednesday to accomodate fastkoala's diary - what about you sofaboy and rattler?

thanks for all porridge info! I'm pleased to know I'm not the only saddo about!

Keith - two!? what are you like!!!

Emmy - if it makes you feel better, I had a cracking run last night. Unexpectedly I had to deviate as a road was closed and do an extra km and I was rushing to pick my daughter up so I had to take it up a gear. I was bright red and sweaty but I was well chuffed after. So wait a couple of days and get out there

Shades - once again, you were right. Please start writing that book!!

Tried a sports massage, felt better at the time but overall no improvement. Do you think complete rest until its better? I'm dying to run!

@Molly - That's great news! I hope that my other runs this week will be like that!

They are currently digging up my street and are starting work at 7am every morning  .. and i've not been getting to bed too early lately!

Lucy I'll leave it to Shades to advise you. My experience is so limited that it would be the blind leading the blind if I offered any advice. As I say though, bear in mind that some more time off can not nullify all the hard training you have already done. People told me that and I didn't believe them. I was really upset and panicing. However, after a couple of weeks of running again I feel I am as fit as I was before my long break and possibly in even better condition.