Well, with just over 6 weeks to go to the York marathon I have a question re-tapering. Having read of people getting twitchy about doing too little during taper time, I'm wondering if My ASICS has it in for me 😮 as it doesn’t seem to taper that much - but it may just be me. My last week fits in 4 runs, including the marathon, when I’ve only been doing 3 a week on the plan. Also not sure if the longest run of 32k is too near The Day.
Long run this week is 28k
8/9 28k
15/9 12k
22/9 32k
29/9 16k
6/10 12k
14/9 Marathon
My other runs are all 5k and then either 8 or 12k.
I was wondering whether to leave as is or swap the first 12k with the 32k so that run is 4 weeks before the marathon?
Hope that makes sense. Would value any thoughts.
Thanks
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I would do the 32 k a month before the marathon! I did my long run 3 weeks before, hurt myself, so was sweating on the top line as I couldn't run after that!
Your taper week should be modest and slow I would do three runs on taper week and nothing more than an 8k, then say a 5k, and on the day before, or two days before, just a jog round the block
The first 12k is there to give you a rest between those two long runs, I'd have thought. I did this same plan before the Brighton Mara 2017 and was fine, but it wasn't my first marathon. What Wobble is saying sounds fine though, if that's what you prefer 😊
Oh absolutely! I was just thinking actually that for my first marathon I did my own plan, and although I think my longest run was 3 weeks before the race (I must have read somewhere that this was a thing), I took the last week completely off!! 😊
My marathon is on Sept 9th and I did my longest run last Thurs Aug 23rd at 31km. I don't plan on doing anything too long now, just a few 5k looseners and maybe a 10k. My main aim is to have a fresh pair of legs with no niggles when I get to the starting line. I don't think I will lose much fitness over those 2+ weeks. I'm not exactly planning to "run" my marathon though, just a joggy attempt to simply get round/finish and hopefully try to get as close as I can to 5hrs as a first pb. If I manage to finish it will be exactly a year since starting C25K!
You decided against the full distance in training then? I think that was a wise decision (says she with zero marathon experience ☺️). I think I’ll go with my gut feeling nearer those weeks when deciding to swap them around or not - at the moment I am.
I’m doing mine the same as you. I keep saying I’ll be happy to finish on the same day😉 but secretly would like to be around the 5hr mark. This came as a bit of a shock to Mr Annie, who will be spending a lot more time in York than he expected! He thought I would be round the course in about 3 1/2 - 4hrs as “I have been training long enough” 😂. Needless to say he doesn’t run, but is very supportive 😍.
Yep. The 42k idea faded once I'd done 31k and 42k was more easily in sight from that distance. I asked myself at 31k "Could you carry on for 11km now?" and I knew I could, so there was no need risking a full 42k.
I feel I could run the first 21k easily in about 2hrs at (6:00) would then suffer to get the next 21k run faster than about 7:30...so overall I plan to just jog the whole way at about 7:00 at get a first marathon pb I can have a crack at next year.
Yes looks about right, as others have said and done the same plan. I did the plan for my first marathon and done a couple since without a plan and still not been able to beat that time. Stick with the plan have faith in the plan. I normally taper two weeks, and then half the distances and do slow less as the day becomes near.
We are all different and it depends on how much you are used to doing etc.... I took my mileage right back from the week before to barely anything so that I would have fresh legs....
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