Hello again - do you like graphs?

[John_W]

Hi All,

After the brutal experience of last year's London Marathon (Achilles injury 5 weeks before, then the hottest ever LM, mobile toe-nail at mile 21 etc etc) and limping home in 4h:16 when i'd originally (and probably over-optimistically) targeted 3:30, I was left with a very strong feeling of unfinished business with the marathon distance. I waited until mid September to resume running again (a 5 month break from all exercise) and took things very easy. I then entered the Manchester Marathon for Sunday 7 April! Anyway, I attach a graph for you... my pace in all runs since mid-Sept - things going ok so far - just have to implement the lessons learnt from last year's training.

Cheers

John

PS more graphs on the way if you want

[ju-ju- Marathon]

Thats fabulous, you can see the improvements clearly... you do like a bit of stats, they are fab

[John_W Marathon in reply to ju-ju-]

thanks Ju! Yea, love the stats me!

[ju-ju- Marathon in reply to John_W]

I have to admit I am partial to the odd one....

[GeorgiosA Marathon]

Absolutely love this!! Well done you - looking good

PS: I *love* graphs!

[Macmac Marathon]

Well done John, looks like good progress towards your previous level of fitness. I do enjoy looking at stats too. I recall reading your 5k progress graph in the past too 😁. I actually think your LM time was very good - especially on such a hot day with recent injury so you should be very proud of that. Good luck with Manchester 👍

[John_W Marathon in reply to Macmac]

Thanks so much! Those 5k graphs were a while back ...

[Sqkr Half Marathon]

Oo I love a graph! And everything going in the right direction too 😄

[Decker Ultramarathon]

You’ve really got this down to a science John! Your progress looks great!

[Tbae Metric Marathon]

Wow.Thats just something else.

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