I'm free-styling now with this training malarkey. Shhhh, don't tell Schedule but I've developed an alternative plan.
Schedule proved too much for me. But no more. Lessons learnt.
I failed to listen to my own needs and went blindly on responding to Schedule's every demand. I let Schedule damage me. But I'm coming back stronger. Oh yes.
My injury seems to be magically healing. After 8 days rest I've rejoined the game, creeping along with a 3 miler, a 5 and a 10. Legs are feeling better each day. Today there's no pain at all. Hardly even a niggle.
The plan now is to do one more long long long run, (20+), and then to taper. Taper is runners code for slack off bigtime. Personally, I can't wait for the taper. I've kind of already had one, cos of the injury, and it was lush (apart from the pain). The only problem with reaching proper taper time is that it means RACE DAY is getting very close. 26th April is approaching with gusto.
So, the revamped plan will see me running 20+miles tomorrow, 18 on Easter Monday and 12 on the 19th, with a few little runs in between. I'm pretty much done with speed sessions and fartlek. It all feels a bit like cramming physics revision the night before the exam now. As Runners World predicted, I've had a major "reassessment of my marathon goals"; Sub 4 hours??? Let's just hang in there with this bloody training and aim to make it round before they start letting the traffic back on the roads.
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