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I didn't realise you were going for a full marathon. Sounds like you were improving so I hope your football injury doesn't knock you back.
My prep for Sunday - meh. Did some intervals last night in the rain, painful. I am already planning where to bail out of the HM early. I may end up doing 21km but ending at home rather than Greenwich.
But I'm feeling better about running in general now. So Hackney Half should be good.
dubkev
Surprisingly well. Haven't done a proper fast 5k (i.e. parkrun) for ages so had no idea what my 5k pace is, which made picking a pace for 5x800m a bit tricky. The existing 5x800m workout on my Garmin used 5:15/km pace so I just decided to try running at whatever was just uncomfortable and ignore any "below pace" warnings if they appeared.
Instead I found I was able to keep to under 5:15/km for the intervals and heart rate peaking at ~180bpm.
Supposed to do a 24k long run today but sacked it off after looking out the window this morning. Easy to do this as I'm off tomorrow, daughter is at school all day and the weather is slightly better.
Am slightly behind where I'd hoped I'd be in marathon prep (I'd want to be doing 10x800m intervals by now), so I'll probably readjust to aim for 4h15 to 4h30. Not particularly worried about the time, I just want to tick off London and get to the point where I can run the full 42km without legs emptying with 10km to go (which happened on two previous marathons).
Main goal is I get the weight down to under 80kg this year and then keep it there (instead of yo-yo-ing back up to 95kg for the winter). I'll then aim for sub 4h in 2020 depending on which marathon I end up with a place in (Brighton as a backup to London ballot entry).
tl;dr they went ok, hows the prep for the Big Half going?