How has training REALLY gone?
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11 Mar
6:30pm, 11 Mar 2025
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SilentTim
For those doing a spring marathon... How has your training REALLY gone? I follow lots of other runners on Instagram. Yesterday it felt like all of their posts were about their wonderful 18 milers. Congrats to them if they did that and I'm genuinely happy for them. We all know social media can sometimes paint a fake picture of life though and sometimes other things get in the way of training. So let's consider this a safe space and keeping it real thread - how has your training really gone? Have you skipped any sessions / weeks? Did you bonk on an important run? Are you feeling woefully underprepared? Did you do your last marathon off barely any training, yet somehow survive?! This thread is by no means to make me feel better about myself after only managing 13 miles on the weekend when the plan called for 16. Nope, not at all 🙊 |
11 Mar
6:44pm, 11 Mar 2025
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cackleberry
I can make you feel better, although I don't have a spring marathon coming up. Instead, I have a spring 50 mile ultra coming up. My longest run has been 13 miles, and that was in Jan. I am going to die a thousand deaths. A combination of ice, a nasty lingering cold, life 'stress' and absent mojo has curtailed any serious training. One 30 mile race has already been deferred to next year. The only saving grace is that my ultra is an LDWA event, so I have very generous cut offs and will be well fed as I haul myself round. Do report back after your marathon, I'll do the same! |
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11 Mar
7:21pm, 11 Mar 2025
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SilentTim
That does make me feel better!! How are you feeling about it? Just a turn up and see how you get on sort of thing?
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11 Mar
9:01pm, 11 Mar 2025
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RiceandPeas
I did my only marathon in December off barely any training after suffering kidney failure in May, sciatica in June and Achilles tendinopathy in August and September. I survived the experience but had to spend much time locked in various portaloos and walked rather a lot. I actually feel really proud of myself for finishing and have even entered the same event this year. I would prefer to be able to do the training this time. Not having explosive diarrhea would make it a perfect day out. |
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11 Mar
9:20pm, 11 Mar 2025
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cackleberry
How do I feel? I've done enough of them to know its going to hurt, a lot! A little nervous I guess, but I should make it round, just not as quick as I'd like. |
11 Mar
10:29pm, 11 Mar 2025
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Velociraptor
Abundant but slow. And at the point you're at pre-marathon, @SilentTim, my longest run was 13 miles. |
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11 Mar
10:38pm, 11 Mar 2025
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SilentTim
That middle graph is really pleasing to the eye somehow!! But absolutely wow at your mileage, that's amazing!! |
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7:50am
7:50am, 12 Mar 2025
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SilentTim
Also, that's reassuring about your 13!! I do have plans to do an 18 and 20 in the next few weeks though, so all is not lost! @fetcheveryone re the bottom graph on that page - is it me, or is it a bit difficult to interpret? I feel like it would be better if along the bottom you had common distances like 10, 13, 16, 18, 20, then the Y axis was how many of each of those you / the group had done? |
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7:51am
7:51am, 12 Mar 2025
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SilentTim
Also @fetcheveryone - I'm really intrigued that you are USER3 - who were the first two?!
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9:57am
9:57am, 12 Mar 2025
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Surrey Phil
I've done a couple of 11 mile runs but have had a few calf niggles recently. I cannot remember the last time, I went through marathon training without getting ill or injured in some way. On the positive side, 11 miles is a few miles more than I have managed on a long run since Covid-19. |
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