Continuing in the disjointed training pattern this week.
Long run Monday. 20 miles at 7:07. Avg.
Tuesday, rest day.
Wednesday, 10 miles. I had some serious soreness in my quads after Monday's long run. While I was delighted with the run, and how it had gone, I did push the pace faster than I had intended, and now I was paying the price. The 10 miles were easy, at 7:25 average
Thursday, again, I was still quite sore, so 8 miles, again at an easy pace, trying to give the legs a chance to heal, but they were still very sore.
Friday, although I was still sore, I knew I needed some kind of a quality session for the week.
Plan was 1 warmup, then 13 at 6:35. It was ambitious , and the first easy mile I was still feeling quite sore in my quads, but I decided to give it a go. I often find that the fast twitch muscles required for the harder pace runs will feel entirely different than the feel of a pace maybe a minute slower.
And so it proved to be the case. While the harder pace felt easier, the soreness was still evident, albeit a lot less. I dropped into a nice 6:30 pace after the first two were a bit fast at 6:23, 6:26.
Up to 8 miles I was going really well. At that point, the pain in the quads was getting more pronounced again, and the legs began to protest loudly. At 10 miles at the 6:30 pace I gave up. The last two miles were 8:05 to home in a babystep shuffle, and quite a lot of discomfort, to finish a 13 mile session.
Saturday, surprisingly, there was actually little sign of the previous day's effort, in that while the legs were still sore, they were no more so than they had been setting off yesterday.
My intention was for 8-10 easy miles. I set out to just run to feel, with the hope of a 7:20 - 7:30 pace, and I was able to achieve that quite easily. Again, I was sore, but running. As I approached 10 miles, I decided to extend it a bit, testing my stamina after the previous day's tempo.
All went well to 13 miles, then I started to get into difficulty. The legs, again, very tired, and my energy was sapped. I pushed on home with 15 miles at 7:21 average.
The difficulty with this is, that I am afraid I am telling my body that I am fine to half way, but then it can quit. I have been here before with half marathon training, thinking two consecutive 10k's will produce a good half. They don't, you just fade at about 11 miles.
I knew I needed to give my quads time to heal, so I binned Sunday and Monday's run.minhavent had two days off for a while. I have a lot of time pressures this week with family life and work, it will likely be shorter, harder sessions until the weekend.
Hopefully the quads will have recovered when I head out tomorrow, otherwise, it's damage limitation.
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