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Stuff I think about while running round in circles

Here are a few pages from my blog. This has very little to do with the business - in fact its mainly included here to test the effect of putting an RSS feed from a blog on a web site.

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Now That is Annoying

As you have probably gathered I am aiming to complete this marathon (and the training for it) with the minimum possible effort, I'm not one for driving myself through the pain barrier, or frankly even the ever so slightly fatigued barrier. On a fairly regular basis I have set out to run 4 laps of the harbour and only run 3 - I like to think that this is because I am finely attuned to the feedback I am getting from my body and sensible enough not to push too hard - but it might be because I am inherently lazy.

I haven't really set myself a target time (or not one I'd bust a gut to achieve) I've been working on the plan that if I manage to keep going to the end I'll be around the 3.50 mark just on the basis that I can't make myself run much slower than that.

This will be fine because my only slightly competitive urge is that it would be nice to beat the time of 4.10 that my friend John Q set in the Dublin marathon last year (he is quite competitive). Which was all good until I discovered that I was wrong and John's time was actually 3.50

Which is frankly as potentially annoying a time as it could be because its just near enough to the time I'm expecting to run that I might (subconciously) put in a bit of effort to try and beat it. If it was 3.35 I'll probably not be anywhere near, but I have this horrible feeling I'm going to end up running the first 15 miles a bit too fast and then trying to push the last few miles to dip under 3.50 which would ruin my vision of finishing feeling comfortable and unruffled.

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Lets call it "taper training"

Just 3 weeks to go till the marathon and last week I ran fewer miles at a slower pace than any week since Christmas. I'd like to blame the fact that I was looking after the kids all week (Mrs B was off skiing) but mainly it was down to lethargy and the fact that a few 15m runs appear to have run what little pace I possessed out of my legs entirely. Anyway, its not necessarily a bad thing, I believe you are supposed to taper off your training as you get nearer to the race day.

Just looked up the schedules for "tapering off" on one of the running web sites and their idea of a rest week was 36 miles which would be one of my longest weeks ever.

Too late to worry about it though, I'm not likely to get much done this week - driving up to Scotland and back for a family weekend and I'm certainly not going to try and break new ground with just two weeks to go. I'll just stick to my plan which is to run as slowly as I can for the first 3 hours (which I know I can do) and see where I am. (Todays Run: 5m - Distance so Far 270.9m)

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Hard work and not very far

Interesting route this morning, I was going to head over to Chidham and run round the foreshore there, but realised quite quickly that it was bit further away than I had anticipated. I guess it will be about 4 miles to the start of the nice bit, 3 miles along the shore and a couple of miles back. I might give it a try at the weekend but its a bit too far for a weekday lunchtime.

So the upshot is that we (Elle was running with me, I haven't gone all 3rd person) cut back from the A259 into Bosham along the shore path and through the old boat yard. Don't go that way much because you can't get through at high tide and its really muddy at the best of times. Quite good for a walk, but you need to climb on and off the sea wall and the rocks on the beach are hard to run through.
(Todays Run: 3.5m - Distance so Far 207.9m)

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