I am currently training for my second HM. I did my last (and only ) one HM using run/walk and during training struggled out to 20K before the "race" . This time I am intending to go longer - but slower -- out to 24K before the "race". Race is in inverted commas - because it isn't really a race for me, more like a survival course!!
Did 18K last week and will do 20K next week. But the very fact that I am planning such a thing - traverse 20K on foot, partly running partly walking - is actually quite mind boggling to me. As John Bingham says - the miracle is not that I finished, but that I actually started!! I feel good about it though - even as I realise that I will soon be entering uncharted waters.
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Good idea to go further beforehand to be sure you can hack it on the day. 24k should be quite far enough ☺ if you prepare well, as you are doing, hopefully it will be plain sailing on the day. I trust the 24k will be just the once.
I am doing a 10k in June and then HM in September so I have the 20 km in mind too. I run 3 times a week - 2 X 5k and a "long run". I did do. 15k once, 10k minimum and this week did 11k. Once my 10k is out of the way, I will build up my distances - eek, frightening
Fantastic Bazza, you are doing brilliantly! Can't quite get my head around a HM just yet😮! However, I am seriously tempted to start upping my distance after my first proper 10k event at the weekend. I have run a fair few 10ks on my own now and love the distance but am also tempted by the Great South Run in October, which is a 10 miler. Will wait and see how I find the crowds etc first before making any decisions however. 🙂
My preference is for large events rather than small ones - I find that the crowds and other runners drag me along and give me something to occupy my mind. My last HM only had about 300 entrants - this next one will be around 7000 !!
It is a bit weird really -- but I now feel that 12-14K is for me a bit like 5K was 2 years ago !! On the other hand - there is also a little flea in my ear which keeps asking me - why are we doing this? Is it really necessary?? Unfortunately I have no answer for him - so I just ignore him. I started out with all this because I thought that I "should" be able to walk 5K and run 1K - and at that time certainly could not run 1K . Now, I am only getting warmed up at the 1K mark I really don't know where it is all leading to.
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Progress report from the Half Marathon training :)
