After a suprisingly light week (just a 3 miler and a VO2 Max session for various reasons) the week ended with a 19 mile run. Suddenly it feels like marathon training has really started. A long, slow, slog just grinding out the miles, this is how the runs last year felt. Much longer than you are used to but with the realisation that come the day there would still be another 7 miles to do.
Of course the thing that is different this time is knowing what to expect - I know that it is going to hurt, hopefully some time after 23/24 miles. That my general tiredness is only going to increase. That at some point very soon I will want to eat all of the time. That the dull aching in my legs will probably be there until the tapering starts about 2 weeks before the big day.
This 19 miles was the furthest I have run since FLM2009 yet it will be the first of many over such distances. It was pleasing that despite needing a thin layer of Deep Heat to get going there were no real problems to report come the end, and whilst it felt slow the half marathon time was 1:53 - which this time last year I would have been over the moon with.
And that's the thing, whilst FLM2009 is still fairly fresh in my mind so much has changed for me, running wise, since that knowing what to expect only helps me plan better to hopefully achieve so much more.
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