My first full marathon! That is what I am training for as you might know if you are a regular reader of my blog (for which I am very very grateful). But things are getting serious! Several important things happened today: I had two trainings in one day. Of course, I am used to run and cross train in one day, e.g. squash and run, spin and run, swim and run, but I have never actually ran twice in one day.
I had a morning training with The Coach and apart from form exercise and strength training, we did 8x 400 m intervals + warm up run etc. I did around 4 miles. And the last day of my mini training cycle 2 (each cycle has 7 training units) was an easy 10K (6.25 mi) run at 6:00 min/km = 9:39 min/mile. Successfully accomplished just few hours ago! Working with The Coach is another sign of things getting serious. And finally, today, I outran year 2010! 7th month of the year did not even finish and my mileage is already higher that last year. I hope things keep on rolling well for my training.
I am very tired and need to go sleep right now. I promise to keep you posted on how the marathon training goes, thank you for your support! Stay tuned, sign up for email updates or RSS feeds or leave a comment, tell me about your story or send me a link to your blog! And just keep running and listen to your body.
Congratulations :-) I ran twice a day only once a week and just easy jog (max 5km - pace 7-8/km each run).
ReplyDeleteThanx for the support ... I have to say I am very tired today and glad for the rest day!
ReplyDeletethanks for stopping by and congrats on tackling your first marathon!!!
ReplyDeletei was wearing pearl izumi streak in my photo. they are racing flats
Thank you for stopping by here Amanda :) and for the support!
ReplyDeleteI am very Nike addicted, but I am starting to think I might need to look around to have different kind of shoes to switch (I am switching between two pairs of Nike right now - on of them Frees).