Tonight’s run confirmed my suspicions from the WPS Half Marathon on Sunday. After I hit about the 6-7 mile mark, I can keep pushing but the speed just isn’t there.
I can train for that! The question is how long it will take to get back to where I was? That I just don’t know. When the Manitoba Marathon comes up on Father’s Day, I want to be back where I was a few months ago. But I don’t know if that is possible to do safely.
In my race report / after race analysis for the WPS Half Marathon I mentioned that I had been missing mid week higher intensity runs in the 9-10 mile range on the treadmill. I haven’t done a strong one of those since March 18th and they need to come back weekly.
So tonight was an attempt at that as well as a test to confirm my suspicions.
Bottom line – I need to ramp up the intensity and the total mileage to hit my goals. Good – I am better with a project than maintenance anyway.
I also had a run yesterday I tweeted but didn’t put up on the blog – 5 miles in 37:15 – a decent push with having done a half marathon race a couple days before. That run confirmed for me I can still do some speed – I just need to be able to do it longer.
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