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Ran a local half marathon yesterday having not ran more than 16km in one go since Dublin marathon about 12 months ago.
I spent the first half of this year focusing on improving 5k time which was of course a lot of intensity but not massive volume in terms of long runs anyway, followed by a couple of months of start/stop due to foot and calf niggles.
My plan was to run easy/z2 heart rate, but I was feeling good warming up so decided to ignore the watch and try to run to feel. I’ve never run to feel, I guess I don’t trust myself to know how I feel, but it was enlightening! I ran a 15s PB despite the lack of specific conditioning and don’t feel any soreness (but plenty of stiffness) today. It was a lumpy course but ran fairly even splits in terms of pace and HR