Oh hey! I have this too. It has come and gone before but I almost felt like my foot was broken after I finished the NYC marathon a week ago. Thanking my lucky stars it didn’t bother me until after. I’m taking almost a month of rest now before training for the half marathon.
You’ve got this! Just slowly add the miles back in and you will get to the finish line! This deep in the training I think is just as tough mentally as it is physically. Your body will get you through. Think about that finish line!
While I haven’t had a cold, I am dealing with some right hip/outer thigh/it pain and I’ve had to back off my faster paces and shorten my run intervals. I’m in denial about it. But I’m having to move my simulations and long runs around because of obligations so I’m going to throw some extra rest days in to give it time to rest.
Oh no! Yes, everything I'm learning is that rest is the best for it. Hope you recover quickly!
It's been about two months since you posted this message regarding utilizing run-walk instead of running continuously. How is it going for you? I have become more and more run-walk curious since listening to interviews with Marc Buget (one of the Galloway pacers) who recently won an Ultra while using Galloway run-walk intervals.
Hell, I'll take it getting into the 60s.Okay, but it IS the weather that is wrong.
Supposedly it's supposed to get down into the 50s soon, which will feel incredible.
You called?Okay, but it IS the weather that is wrong.
Supposedly it's supposed to get down into the 50s soon, which will feel incredible.
Yes. We have had heavy frosts this week where I live.
I haven't been training with it lately. I did it for a weeks and was planning on doing it for a 10 mile race that I had a few weeks ago. Once I got going and was going at a good pace, I just kept running. Since then, I have just been straight running. But I haven't ruled it out. I am starting my build to the really long runs on weekends. I think as I get to my target 20 mile run, I may use the strategy to see how it works. For the marathon, I have been contemplating running the first half and then doing the run/walk for second half.
I can't even imagine frost right now. Down here in Houston I was golfing in shorts and 80 degrees yesterday. Today for my lunch run it was 74 degrees and it felt awesome. The humidity is finally starting to go away.
I'm more of a fan of continuous running myself, but I'm definitely curious about whether or not it can make me faster. I sent an email to Chris Twiggs (who runs the training programs for Jeff Galloway) and he informed me that his anecdotal evidence shows that most people average seven minutes faster times when they switch to run-walk. He did add the caveat that the improvements break down when the pace is faster than nine min/mile, but that one can expect a five minute improvement for the half marathon. I think that I'll stick with continuous running for Dopey 2025, but I might do a HM in Miami to see if run-walk might get me a faster time.
I can tell you from personal experience that it while I’m sure it varies for everyone, run/walk makes me a lot faster. I run continuously for almost all my training because I prefer it and I think it helps my endurance. Runs over 12 miles I switch to intervals to make it easier on myself. When racing for time I run walk either 4/:30 or 3:30/:30. My half PR was actually 2:30/:30 as I’ve found the shorter the intervals the faster I can run, but don’t want to be sprinting, so I’m trying to find the balance point. This past W&D 1:42 was 3:30/:30, my best continuous half was about 1:55 a couple years ago so maybe faster now but not even close to my run walk. Marathon I can’t even imagine maintaining my paces without run/walk. I’m trying like heck to get to 3:30 but haven’t held pace past mile 21 yet. I suggest to anyone and everyone to at least try it and see how it works for them.
I am not ready for winter! Luckily it's mostly been in the 40s here but my legs are having trouble acclimating, they are so stiff! I might have to bring out the fleece legging soon. We have been getting a lot of rain and my long run this past weekend was in the cold rain, I've never been so miserable, at least it wasn't windy. And then I when I go to WDW in January it will be so warm and humid that I will barely be able to breathe
