You know how you buy a new car and all of a sudden you realise every other car on the road is the same model? It's like that but with marathon training.
Got to admit I've been pretty un-disciplined with mine so far. I had a stint of very long weeks with up to 5 hours commute each day until two weeks ago so I've been failing miserably to get the midweek runs in, although during that time I made sure I was commuting at least part of the way by bicycle. Big up the Brompton massive!
The only thing I was making sure I stuck at was my long runs. Every weekend. Whatever was on the plan would be run.
I'm now 5 weeks out from the Brighton Marathon and feeling good. Not least because I started a new job this week with only a few minutes commute so I'm able to run in the morning before work. Bloody luxury.
Also despite an injury preventing me from even walking 5 days beforehand I managed to get an encouraging 2h15m at the Thorpe Half, my target time for the Brighton Mara is 4h30m so with the extra final push in training and no longer feeling like I'm carrying any injury I'm hopeful that it's achievable.
For no reason here is a random run from this morning. Because I have time to do it now. Yay.
