More Marathon Training...
It's been nearly a month since my last post and the last few days have been a little interesting, so I'm gonna blog it. I'm still following the Steve Palladino marathon training plan, and so far so good. I've continued wearing the calf and knee protectors on my right leg, and they seem to be doing the trick, but time will tell! The plan started on the 7th of November and it's four runs a week, so I've now done 17 runs of the 84 or so runs of the plan. Still a way to go before Manchester, but slowly getting there... The last blog was talking about the first long run in the plan which was 80 minutes. This week the long run was 101 minutes. Not a huge increase, but I guess upping the distance a little every week makes sense. It's the same shape of plan, with 10m gentle running at the start and end, and in the middle a big chunk at a slightly quicker pace and 15m at a decent pace. But recently I have been thinking about the maratho...