I have run/walked 3 half marathons and found that training/running this way completely destroys my ability to run continuously for any real length of time. Most of my running does revolve around parkrun so it proved to be a dilemma for me. I have now decided to attempt a full marathon next year ( at age 72) and for health reasons I believe I have to slow down and reduce my heart rate so I am intending to do nothing but run/walk from now on. I am going to regard my efforts at parkrun to be simply slow marathon training. I have had a blockage of a retinal vein in my eye and lost most of my sight in my right eye . This is probably associated with the fact that I have atherosclerosis (hardening/calcification of ) arteries caused by a lifetime of too high cholesterol . So anyway, I want to continue running and I don't mind "giving up" continuous running . They say that you can't outrun a bad diet- but I am now realising that you can't outrun your genes either!!
Change of pace: I have run/walked... - Fun Beyond 10K & ...
Change of pace
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However you are clearly outrunning a very high percentage of the population! I love how we keep learning about ourselves year after year. Whatever age, it's as if we're still growing up. Good luck with the marathon training and the new strategy
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Oh I am so sorry about your eye Bazza, but good on you for carrying on with your running - at any pace! Good luck with your training!!
Say, how many parkruns have you done so far? xx
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I have come to the conclusion (even in the short amount of time I've been running) that it's just a constant work in progress, all this running stuff. I think it would be daft not to constantly assess your situation and tweak accordingly. So I don't think you're giving anything up, simply readjusting to fit your set of circumstances and that makes perfect sense 😊 Long may the marathons continue!
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sounds like a good plan. Good luck with your training Bazza.