Running

1 week post marathon and still not sure how I feel about it…

The level of traffic was a major factor, having to run through 3:45, 3:30 and 3:15 groups was not in the plan and added a lot of deceleration and acceleration and was definitely causing a lot of extra stress but I was still at half way in touching smdisrance of my target pace, when I decided that I didn’t have it in me to hit the target and slowed to the sub 3, i think part of the problem was that I never really gave myself a hard time target for London to pin my hat on, I always knew that once I’d done sub 3 it was a big jump to the next milestone and wasn’t ever quite in 2:49 shape so had settled on a target pace, which would have been tricky if I had tried sticking to it as my watch lost signal around the isle of dogs and I was working to time elapsed and mile markers from about 19 miles onwards…I know if the race had been different I would have been on track at that stage but I can’t ignore the fact that I pulled the plug long before I had any problems, so I’m really tempted to have a short recovery and build to another marathon in December where the traffic won’t be a problem, but it presents a few challenges…

It’s 8 weeks away so I need to get some miles in between now and then and none of my training buddies will be prepared to put long runs in at this stage in the year, and my family hasn’t already given me plenty of time off this year, plus I may very well have got a good for age slot for next April anyway when I can go back and make amends on my bogey course…

Holding off making a decision till Friday when GFA is announced but in the meantime I better stop acting like it’s the off season and get some east miles in and stop eating everything in sight as I don’t think Michelin man me will have much chance at a 2:50