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Headed out around 7am this morning, with some dates in my pocket to see how far I could go.
Managed to squeeze out a full marathon.
About 12k in, I got the sudden call of nature and managed to nip into a petrol station toilet. Good thing the race was cancelled coz if I was giving it race-pace, that would have just made its way out in the middle of Victoria Park.
Felt fine so carried on. Ate a date every 10k but didn’t have any water other than the glass I had in the morning.
Started to really feel it about 35k in as my legs just felt different in a bad way - think that was dehydration tbh.
Anyway, feels like it’s not a wasted day/training block now at least.
Also, just didn’t feel like I would have been able to maintain 4:08 for 21k anyway, so leant into volume.