Advice again

[paul1960]

Sorry for asking again but just abit worried still only got till 5th April for my first marathon started running again after about 4weeks off. did 3mile 3.50mile and 8.50 last week do you think I have enough time still got the 14mile 16mile and 18mile to do but I did the 20 mile about 4 weeks ago and honestly I found it very easy but through having a few weeks off am hoping I will be able to do it any more advice would be very much appreciated am doing at the moment 2x5miles and my longer run at the weekend do you think that's ok

[misswobble Marathon]

How’s your injured leg? you’ve got to ease yourself back in. You know you can do 18 and 20 miles so I wouldn’t worry about wanting to repeat it

If you find the 20 miles easy then you should be good on the day 👍. Build back up gently

[misswobble Marathon in reply to misswobble]

Hi Paul I thought of you on my run just now. I was listening to Nike Coach Bennett on my running app. We were doing a slow 7km run this morning. He talked about 7 km as being a LONG RUN, and it struck me that you probably think of a long run as more like 17 k or 18 k and above.

he talked about slow progression and the changes and improvements that brings in our bodies, and that we shouldn't be in a hurry to speed things up.

Take care matey!

[SlowLoris]

You have 6 weeks. The last 2 weeks should be tapering so effectively 4 weeks of mileage progression before the taper. You could do long runs of 11, 13, 15, 18 with some small increases each week on the shorter mid week runs.

The taper weeks are very important. Also don't be tempted to jump back into a very long run. Especially now that you've discovered you are not invincible.