How has training REALLY gone?
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12 Mar
3:16pm, 12 Mar 2025
2,540 posts
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AndyJ57
I’m training for my first marathon which will be London this year. I’ve missed about 4 weeks due to injury and have been concerned I won’t get enough long runs in, so this thread is making me feel a bit better. I’ve tried to abandon any idea of achieving the time I hoped for and to just focus on finishing. 2 hours is my longest run so far with a half marathon this weekend. All the stories online of 18 or 20 miles ticked off have me feeling like I’m behind but I’ll do what I can and hope its enough on the day.
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12 Mar
3:22pm, 12 Mar 2025
373 posts
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Old Mum
FWIW, when I did London my longest training run had been 16 miles. Can't say it was easy, not helped by me taking a Luco sports drink at mile 10(ish), knowing full well my stomach hates them. But you'll find the atmosphere and Fetch support crew will spur you on. Just don't cry and try to hug the bloke handing you the medal when you cross the line. There's just no call for that.
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12 Mar
3:23pm, 12 Mar 2025
7,593 posts
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paulcook
Virtually nobody goes into a race having ticked off every single session and long run they planned. Better to go into a race slightly under-cooked than over-cooked.
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12 Mar
4:28pm, 12 Mar 2025
52,138 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
AndyJ57 wrote: I’m training for my first marathon which will be London this year. I’ve missed about 4 weeks due to injury and have been concerned I won’t get enough long runs in, so this thread is making me feel a bit better. I’ve tried to abandon any idea of achieving the time I hoped for and to just focus on finishing. 2 hours is my longest run so far with a half marathon this weekend. All the stories online of 18 or 20 miles ticked off have me feeling like I’m behind but I’ll do what I can and hope its enough on the day. Ooh, how exciting to be doing London as your first ever marathon. You'll love it. If you are slightly undertrained just expect to go more slowly, and to have to walk bits later on, but remember to enjoy it all! Good luck everyone in your training and race goals, even if training hasn't *quite* gone to plan!  G
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12 Mar
4:28pm, 12 Mar 2025
555 posts
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SilentTim
AndyJ57 wrote: I’m training for my first marathon which will be London this year. I’ve missed about 4 weeks due to injury and have been concerned I won’t get enough long runs in, so this thread is making me feel a bit better. I’ve tried to abandon any idea of achieving the time I hoped for and to just focus on finishing. 2 hours is my longest run so far with a half marathon this weekend. All the stories online of 18 or 20 miles ticked off have me feeling like I’m behind but I’ll do what I can and hope its enough on the day. My thread has worked! I'm glad it's made you feel better too! You're probably in a similar boat to me Which half is it? I'm doing Wigan Half this weekend, wondering if we're on the same race? I'm going to park a bit further out and run in as a warm-up to get a few extra miles |
16 Mar
10:23am, 16 Mar 2025
8,625 posts
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Mark J 🇳🇿
I right up notes for every run I do. The good, the bad and the occasional ugly. I never gloss them up. I think it's important for me to track it all. Sometimes people will like and sometimes comment, support etc. Which is the lovely part about Fetch, but I never expect it. It's for when I need to look back at certain sessions or periods in training tiry and work out what did or didn't work. I'm pretty good at being consistent with my training and try to do everything right MOST of the time. But at the same time, you have to listen to your body (but don't trust your brain too much when things are tough), your body knows better. Oh and life has a habit of throwing stuff at you and if you don't have the luxury of earning a living from running (that's all of us, no doubt) then life tends to win that argument. Let the run go and don't try to play catch up. That's a dangerous game and its more important to live for another day's run instead. |
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16 Mar
10:28am, 16 Mar 2025
8,626 posts
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Mark J 🇳🇿
But in answer to your initial question. I'm running an autumn marathon in 4 weeks. My data is telling me I should be fine for target. However, I have had two recent runs where I have had to stop and or run walk in the closing kms. Not something that happens to me usually. Head is playing silly buggers but I have 4 weeks to tick a few key sessions off as successful to put my head back in check. Trust in the plan. It's all part of the process, right? RIGHT?
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16 Mar
10:49am, 16 Mar 2025
74,266 posts
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Velociraptor
Trust in the plan, @Mark J 🇳🇿, but don't ignore your head. I've got a spectacular illustration in my training log of what not to do when you start getting subtle signs that you've peaked and gone over the top a month before your target marathon (April 2007, if anyone wants a good eyeroll). In my defence, I'd been hammering out PBs for the previous 6 months and thought I was invincible and didn't recognise what was happening. If comments on training and blogs had been a thing then, I suspect I'd have had a lot of, "WTF did you do THAT for?" along the way. |
23 Mar
12:57pm, 23 Mar 2025
4,781 posts
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cackleberry
My training hasn't improved. Best part of a week down the pan, quite literally, due to an upset stomach. 2 weeks to my 50 mile event... feeling dead confident. |
23 Mar
5:12pm, 23 Mar 2025
11,041 posts
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Surrey Phil
First run in three weeks. I felt heavy and lethargic so six miles was all I could do. On a plus side, my calf held out so mustn't complain!
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