Running

I’m going to try and sharpen up again over the next few weeks, I have poynton 10km then wilmslow half and a few track sessions in between.

Poynton is this weekend iirc. Hope it goes well.

Training peaks estimates my pace threshold has dropped from 7:20 to 8 mins a mile in a months which is a bit of a head fuck.

I'm not sure how TP works to calculate it, but that seems a big drop to me. Did you do a LT test session/effort on a rough day maybe? My Garmin auto-updates mine after some harder efforts but I don't do the test session. Maybe you effort at Poynton will reset it?

My main worry is I’ve peaked mileage a bit too soon (Manchester marathon) so might tag an easy 10km after the wilmslow half, marathon training is a mental battle as well as physical!

Agreed on mental side of things. It is hard to know if enough is enough or too much.

I reckon you've time to recover from long runs still so adding that easy 10km on shouldn't be a problem, that day is also my longest session and there's 2 gentler weekends after then before race day.

On which, my training is for MCR also, and I'll be at Wilmslow too to do that long session - be good to meet you and say a real world hello if you're up for that too.

I'm planning to run the 10km course loop easy setting off just before 8am (tbc) to then be back with time to swap trainers and vest ready for the race start, then finish with a gentle 5km after to make it up to 22 miles on the day.

Marathon effort pace will mean not chasing folks I'd usually race but I reckon this should be easier to do once I have a few miles in my legs already.