This day has been in the back of my mind for a while now, the start of serious focus on my part towards running a sub 3 hour marathon. In some ways I’ve been subconsiously eating worse than usual to set my baseline numbers a little lower to see some early progress.
My body was a little tired from a 12km yeaterday morning, a never-ending string of bad nights sleep with the little ones and going to bed later than I should. Eventually got out for a flat 10.5km in the heat over lunch at 5:17/km and 149bpm average HR. Overall control of my HR was decent on this run, but obviously there is still room for improvement there. I also like tracking my average cadence which came in at 174spm.
Aiming for just over 70km this week, this is a huge jump I know and probably not smart but this is week one and I need something to do with this early motivation. Plan is for consistent 10-12kmish runs most days, one rest day on Thursday, one 20km long run on Friday and 5km easy on Saturday. This is not at all how I plan to structure my weeks going forward but I’m going away with the in laws on the weekend and it would be rude to turn down the likely easy 5km run one of those days. I also don’t want to disappear for two hours on a long run.
Average milage over the past 4 weeks:
- 35km/week
- I cannot easily view my average pace, HR or elevation gain as I’m on Strava free. I would estimate something like average pace of 5:20ish, average HR of 152ish
My average resting HR according to my Garmin Fenix 5X has been 55bpm over February. This stat I’m really curious to monitor throughout as I’d expect it to drift lower with training and have heard it is a reliable early warning sign of over-training if it suddenly increases for no reason.
Day 1 weigh in below. Around 81.9kgs and 15.6% body fat, nothing wrong health wise in my unqualified and biased opinion but not ideal for fast running.
