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@danstuff zero-to-marathon update
After a week of no training at all, thanks to work going totally batshit (featuring two days in court against the guy who, quite literally, wrote the book on the subject), I went out today for a run with @Cycliste and did my longest run so far at 14km or, as I'm electing to call it, a Third Marathon. I did most of it at a steady 5:30m/km pace, despite the first half being off-road on some fairly rough trails alongside the Rhone, tailing off towards the end as we got towards Villeneuve. I ended up at a 5:35/km pace overall.
All I need to do now, in order to fit my sub-4 hour target, is to learn in 3 months how to do that 3 times in a row at the same pace.
Given how my heels, left calf and right knee are feeling right now I think that's unlikely to be possible, but hey ho, hope springs eternal. Hoping to do a 16km run in under 1.5 hours by New Year, and take it from there.