October 3, 2013
Now that my race recovery is complete, I was able to run without holding myself back as well as just plain not being tired. I did not push hard, but I ran in a way that felt comfortable and that did not stress me out too much. I am still wary about how I have felt the past few weeks and I don't want to exacerbate the situation!
Let's jump to the numbers:
Time: 30:00
Let's jump to the numbers:
Time: 30:00
Distance: 3.47 miles
Pace: 8:38/m
Max Pace: 7:40/m
Calories: 365
Avg HR: 134
Max HR: 146
It always surprises me when I have a bad day and then all of a sudden I have a good day, and I am unable to figure out what the mitigating factors were in my bad day. I know I always preach keeping a running journal, and this is basically that, but to really catch the issues you would need to record so much information that you would eventually discourage yourself from running at all! You would need to record how much sleep you got, what you ate, how you felt, what the weather was, all your running stats, your resting HR and any stressors that may be affecting your performance (work, family, life!) In lieu of all that information, it is up to you to just guess.
My guess is that I was tired from the race, stressed about work, family, money and I probably didn't eat well the day before. So, pretty much everything. I am no closer to figuring this crap out!
In my situation, it doesn't matter all that much as I am not doing any specific race preparation workouts. I am not really doing tempo runs, speed training or anything else. I currently do not have a race to prepare for, and frankly, running every day for only 30 minutes makes it hard to work in different running routines. Speed work can take an hour when you factor in the warm ups and the rest periods and all the intervals. So, my speed workouts are not very specific.
However, if you are training for a specific race - lets say a marathon - you do want to do race specific training. That leads me to piece 12 in the 22 Essential Pieces of Marathon Training Advice from Active.com.
Complete Marathon-Specific Workouts
Too many runners focus on a weekly tempo and long run as their only tough workouts before their marathon. These types of workouts can provide a good backbone to your training, but they don't provide the race specificity that's crucial to you doing well in the marathon. All marathoners need to run a good portion of their overall mileage at their goal marathon pace to dial in this effort so it's second nature. —Jason Fitzgerald
The article gives some great advice on how to work on your marathon pacing. This is hard and needs to be planned since you need to be able to handle long runs and you need to be able to handle running at your race pace in a fatigued state. Read the article and apply these training techniques and you should be more prepared for your marathon!
Run for Life!!
It always surprises me when I have a bad day and then all of a sudden I have a good day, and I am unable to figure out what the mitigating factors were in my bad day. I know I always preach keeping a running journal, and this is basically that, but to really catch the issues you would need to record so much information that you would eventually discourage yourself from running at all! You would need to record how much sleep you got, what you ate, how you felt, what the weather was, all your running stats, your resting HR and any stressors that may be affecting your performance (work, family, life!) In lieu of all that information, it is up to you to just guess.
My guess is that I was tired from the race, stressed about work, family, money and I probably didn't eat well the day before. So, pretty much everything. I am no closer to figuring this crap out!
In my situation, it doesn't matter all that much as I am not doing any specific race preparation workouts. I am not really doing tempo runs, speed training or anything else. I currently do not have a race to prepare for, and frankly, running every day for only 30 minutes makes it hard to work in different running routines. Speed work can take an hour when you factor in the warm ups and the rest periods and all the intervals. So, my speed workouts are not very specific.
However, if you are training for a specific race - lets say a marathon - you do want to do race specific training. That leads me to piece 12 in the 22 Essential Pieces of Marathon Training Advice from Active.com.
Complete Marathon-Specific Workouts
Too many runners focus on a weekly tempo and long run as their only tough workouts before their marathon. These types of workouts can provide a good backbone to your training, but they don't provide the race specificity that's crucial to you doing well in the marathon. All marathoners need to run a good portion of their overall mileage at their goal marathon pace to dial in this effort so it's second nature. —Jason Fitzgerald
The article gives some great advice on how to work on your marathon pacing. This is hard and needs to be planned since you need to be able to handle long runs and you need to be able to handle running at your race pace in a fatigued state. Read the article and apply these training techniques and you should be more prepared for your marathon!
Run for Life!!
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