Marathon Training – Week 5
2 min readA solid week of marathon training this week, being able to hit each of my sessions as planned. Running consisted of my three key sessions being hills, intervals and the long run. Feel the regularity of completing these sessions has kept me in good shape moving forward toward the next stage of my training.
The triathlon segment of my training isn’t quite going as well as planned. I am struggling with the swimming component and motivating myself to regularly swim. The cycle is going better, however I think I need more time on the bike but don’t want to sacrifice running time with a marathon now nine weeks away. My main goal is to run a good race in Canberra and then do my best in the Ironman 70.3.
This week I have decided to focus a bit more on the run with four run sessions, two bike and just one swim.
Monday – Run – Aerobic 1 hour
Tuesday – Run – Hills 1 hour
Wednesday – Swim – 40 mins
Thursday – Run – Intervals (8 x 3 min – 1 min recovery)
Friday – Bike – Aerobic – 1 hour
Saturday – Run – Long Run (2:20 including 2 x 12 km at goal race pace)
Sunday – Bike – Aerobic – 1 hour 30 min
Looking to push the run along a bit this week, particularly the long run with a more marathon specific session. 2 x 12km at race pace while still completing the duration of the long run will be a good test of exactly where my running is currently. With less mileage this marathon preparation while incorporating cycling and swimming it’s a risk that this effects the marathon preparation. This run is about trying to see how I shape up as we get close to the middle of the marathon training phase. Currently I am a third of the way through the 12 weeks marathon phase before a 10-14 day taper.
Another decision I will make closer to the marathon is whether to run in shoes or sandals. Most of my training is being completed in sandals, however I haven’t run a road marathon in sandals yet. I need to be comfortable to run the marathon as fast in sandals as shoes. If I can tick that box then I’ll happily run in sandals.
Looking forward to another strong training week and finding out exactly where my run fitness is currently.
Hope your training is also going well. Reach out if you have any questions.
Run well.
