Manchester Marathon Training...
No real need to write a blog note today, but this week I started training for April's Manchester Marathon, and today was the first 'long' run... 😊 . As usual for me, given my fragile post-injury state, I am going to be mainly on the gym treadmill, as was the case today and all the training days so far.. I put the word long in quotes, because an 80 minute run seems long to me, and is the longest of the training plan so far, but I guess for marathon training it's not very long!!! I started doing the Steve Palladino marathon training plan on Tuesday, and it started with a gentle 35 minutes which was nice. Then a run on the Wednesday and Thursday was followed by bowling on Friday (which I lost ) and parkrun on Saturday. So today, Sunday, was the fourth run in the plan and the first reasonably long run. As always, it's all power and time based rather than raw speed, and today was 10 minutes of low power at the start and end Then 45 minutes of ...