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Is it just the trail marathon as the target race? Could be worth doing a few XC races through winter, maybe drop in a half marathon in feb. Give you a few B races in between to keep things interesting
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Yes, was thinking doing a timed half early January, good idea. @Well_is_it : going to keep it easy for now yes. It has to be fun agree, I'd rather run a slower mara time but enjoy the training more. @doubleodavey : I have been spying a local parkrun to try, just an early start is the thing that I will suffer from :) maybe when I have some more miles in my legs...
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Just started back after a 6 month break from running, aiming for an April trail-marathon. It's interesting to notice what the break did, reckon I lost about 25% of my running ability that I had built up overall. The first runs back have felt sluggish and muscle aches have lasted for a couple of days after, whereas I wasn't getting any of that during regular running. I struggled with boredom toward the end of my road marathon training last year, think I stated the training cycle too early and it just went on and on. Hopefully a trail type of marathon will give enough novelty to avoid that. I'm slowly building some base mileage before probably gradually upping it in December time. Hoping for consistency and most of all to enjoy it.