Well, after my marathon on a treadmill in June my first "proper" marathon is nearly upon me. It's on 17 September in the New Forest so I'm cutting down my training by 50% for the next two weeks which I know I'm going to find difficult. Not used to having a lot of time on my hands!
I've been running alone for 18 weeks now and I've been running either a 2 or 3 1/5 loop over and over again which is really hard especially when you're say running 18 miles and running past the same landmark 6 or 7 times. It's also been hard because I've been doing these long runs during the heatwave in July - the way I look at it is if on the day it happens to be really hot I'll be well prepared. So the way I see it is the marathon on the day is not going to be as bad as what I've been going through for the past 18 weeks - at least I'll be running with other people and they'll be water stations so I won't have the problem of running out of water and having to pop into the local hairdressers to fill my water belt up!!
Is there anyone out there who's trained similarly and when it came down to the big day found it just that bit easier than what you're imagining in your
head?
I've been running alone for 18 weeks now and I've been running either a 2 or 3 1/5 loop over and over again which is really hard especially when you're say running 18 miles and running past the same landmark 6 or 7 times. It's also been hard because I've been doing these long runs during the heatwave in July - the way I look at it is if on the day it happens to be really hot I'll be well prepared. So the way I see it is the marathon on the day is not going to be as bad as what I've been going through for the past 18 weeks - at least I'll be running with other people and they'll be water stations so I won't have the problem of running out of water and having to pop into the local hairdressers to fill my water belt up!!
Is there anyone out there who's trained similarly and when it came down to the big day found it just that bit easier than what you're imagining in your