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first off, this is not meant as a slam on you're training... for whatever reason you are training for a marathon and as a response to asking if indeed you are running two days a week you respond with 'raising two kids and wife works too'... that's cool... when I ran my first marathon I was a single mom with two boys and I did all my long runs on a treadmill while they watched Saturday cartoons, also got in f other short runs during my M-F lunch hour at my job...it can be done...
but with 3 and a half weeks to go the advice you're going to get is very limited... I think Zeke was trying to say (Zeke,correct me if I'm wrong) that the more running you do both per week and over consecutive years, the easier all of this gets, or at least the better your body adapts to long distance running... there is no 'secret fix'... however, with limited time between now and the marathon you want to COMPLETE, my advice is this... slow down on your long runs and slow down for the first 10-15 miles of the marathon... be sure to hydrate properly, take in enough salt/sugar in the form of whatever sport drink & gel sits well on your stomach (which is something you are supposed to use your training long runs to test out)... don't do anything new on marathon day and consider cutting back on your long runs for the last two weeks before the marathon. Most training plans have a three week taper, but with your (and I'm guessing here)low mileage per week and relaitve youth you might be able to do fine with a two week taper...
the days before the marathon try and get enough sleep & don't over-do the nutrition, I say that knowing what it's like to have young kids in the house...no new shoes at this point unless you NEVER have shoe problems or the ones you are using now fall into a million pieces this weekend...
MOST important... report back on how it works out for you...good luck... -Rita
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