Official 2015 Disney Marathon Thread

[John VN]

So yesterday I ran the LBI 18 Miler as a training run. I did a good job hydrating in the days before, but I'm thinking maybe I over-hydrated and messed up my salt. I take 2 clif blocks every three miles or so but at mile 14 my calves totally seized up. I tried to stop and stretch but that didn't help. When I finally got to the finish line (4th from last in 4hrs 12 mins) I had two bags of pretzels and it was like I had new legs. So I'm assuming this is a salt issue, right? Should I be running with salt packets now?

I am not sure what you mean by, 2 clif blocks, but just peruse this information for nutritional facts......http://www.cranksports.com/products/eGel/comp/clifshotbloks.asp

Fueling and hydration go hand in hand.

My 140.6 mile Ironman Florida in 2 weeks, 5 days , then 13.1 mile Space Coast Half Marathon, then 71 mile WDW plus Dream Palindrome Marathon Weekend+, then 26.2 mile Celebration Marathon


McFlurry John

 

[MRS AR]

I am not sure what you mean by, 2 clif blocks, but just peruse this information for nutritional facts......http://www.cranksports.com/products/eGel/comp/clifshotbloks.asp Fueling and hydration go hand in hand. My 140.6 mile Ironman Florida in 2 weeks, 5 days , then 13.1 mile Space Coast Half Marathon, then 71 mile WDW plus Dream Palindrome Marathon Weekend+, then 26.2 mile Celebration Marathon McFlurry John

And someplace in the mix you add in a McFlurry. . You are an inspiration

 

[Weluvdisny]

So, we are under the 3 month mark and I'm curious as to how everyone's training is going? Mine was great until Monday when I had my long run of 15 miles to do. That last mile hurt my knees, my IT band, my calves. Ugh. I used my foam roller after and it helped tremendously! My road is only 4 miles long so I had to keep turning around and I'm hoping that's all it was. I have a 4 mile run to do today and then I'm part of a 4-man marathon relay team for Sunday. Crossing my fingers that my legs are ok!

What's everyone up to for their long runs? I decided to start mine early because I know how the winters are here and if I can't get a long one in sometime, I want to feel that I will still be ready.

 

[Nole95]

So, we are under the 3 month mark and I'm curious as to how everyone's training is going? Mine was great until Monday when I had my long run of 15 miles to do. That last mile hurt my knees, my IT band, my calves. Ugh. I used my foam roller after and it helped tremendously! My road is only 4 miles long so I had to keep turning around and I'm hoping that's all it was. I have a 4 mile run to do today and then I'm part of a 4-man marathon relay team for Sunday. Crossing my fingers that my legs are ok!

What's everyone up to for their long runs? I decided to start mine early because I know how the winters are here and if I can't get a long one in sometime, I want to feel that I will still be ready.

Last week I did a back to back 8 and 16 mile runs to prepare for Goofy. This week is a step back week before really cranking it up with a 9 and 18 mile runs back to back next week. Normally run four times a week. Easy run, tempo/speed work run, and then the back to back long runs.

Training has good pretty good now that the weather has cooled down. As long as it stays that way, I can get some good runs in.

 

[RnbwSktles]

So, we are under the 3 month mark and I'm curious as to how everyone's training is going? Mine was great until Monday when I had my long run of 15 miles to do. That last mile hurt my knees, my IT band, my calves. Ugh. I used my foam roller after and it helped tremendously! My road is only 4 miles long so I had to keep turning around and I'm hoping that's all it was. I have a 4 mile run to do today and then I'm part of a 4-man marathon relay team for Sunday. Crossing my fingers that my legs are ok!

What's everyone up to for their long runs? I decided to start mine early because I know how the winters are here and if I can't get a long one in sometime, I want to feel that I will still be ready.

Training has been going great! I only missed one run so far and that due to a cold. I can see my pace getting quicker, so I am happy about that
I'm following Higdon's Dopey plan. I just did 15 miles also this past weekend. My long long runs are every other week, the next one being 16. This weekend should be 9, but I am running a half instead.

 

[derekleigh]

So, we are under the 3 month mark and I'm curious as to how everyone's training is going? Mine was great until Monday when I had my long run of 15 miles to do. That last mile hurt my knees, my IT band, my calves. Ugh. I used my foam roller after and it helped tremendously! My road is only 4 miles long so I had to keep turning around and I'm hoping that's all it was. I have a 4 mile run to do today and then I'm part of a 4-man marathon relay team for Sunday. Crossing my fingers that my legs are ok!

What's everyone up to for their long runs? I decided to start mine early because I know how the winters are here and if I can't get a long one in sometime, I want to feel that I will still be ready.

So far so good. I have a 20 miler this weekend. I will aim for another two 20+ milers in November and December (one for each month).

If it helps my 15 miler hurt more than my 16 or 18 milers.

 

[ell13]

So, we are under the 3 month mark and I'm curious as to how everyone's training is going? Mine was great until Monday when I had my long run of 15 miles to do. That last mile hurt my knees, my IT band, my calves. Ugh. I used my foam roller after and it helped tremendously! My road is only 4 miles long so I had to keep turning around and I'm hoping that's all it was. I have a 4 mile run to do today and then I'm part of a 4-man marathon relay team for Sunday. Crossing my fingers that my legs are ok! What's everyone up to for their long runs? I decided to start mine early because I know how the winters are here and if I can't get a long one in sometime, I want to feel that I will still be ready.

Pretty well. I have my first race of the season this Sunday. A half marathon. I'm hoping to break the 2 hour mark. My current PR is 2:08 so it's a decent amount of time to shave but I've never really trained like this before. It was a long hot summer.

 

[SgtTibbs]

Huh.

I've been down for the last week with cold like symptoms, fuzzy head, total lack of a desire to do anything akin to running.

It stated raining this morning and presto I feel much much better.

Humm....

 

[jerivera]

So, we are under the 3 month mark and I'm curious as to how everyone's training is going? Mine was great until Monday when I had my long run of 15 miles to do. That last mile hurt my knees, my IT band, my calves. Ugh. I used my foam roller after and it helped tremendously! My road is only 4 miles long so I had to keep turning around and I'm hoping that's all it was. I have a 4 mile run to do today and then I'm part of a 4-man marathon relay team for Sunday. Crossing my fingers that my legs are ok!

What's everyone up to for their long runs? I decided to start mine early because I know how the winters are here and if I can't get a long one in sometime, I want to feel that I will still be ready.

It's only now finally getting nice out for runs here in TX! It got pretty bad there for several weeks. I'm still in disbelief whenever I see folk running in 99 degree (or higher) weather.

I had to do a 20 miler this last weekend. I was sort of fine until I hit the 17 mile mark, my previous longest distance. I keep forgetting that every time I go over my previous longest distance, my body says "WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!?!???". And proceeds to go on angry revolt against further movements of the running kind.

The funny part is that based on previous experience, the next time I have to do 20 or go over 20 I'll be fine until I get to 20 and then again my body (or mind?) will react with a sudden "Warning! Warning! Previous running threshold has been exceeded! Prepare for emergency body unpleasantness!!!" ...

That's the point of training I guess, to get your body (and mind) used to it. Still, UGH.

 

[ANIM8R]

So, we are under the 3 month mark and I'm curious as to how everyone's training is going? Mine was great until Monday when I had my long run of 15 miles to do. That last mile hurt my knees, my IT band, my calves. Ugh. I used my foam roller after and it helped tremendously! My road is only 4 miles long so I had to keep turning around and I'm hoping that's all it was. I have a 4 mile run to do today and then I'm part of a 4-man marathon relay team for Sunday. Crossing my fingers that my legs are ok!

What's everyone up to for their long runs? I decided to start mine early because I know how the winters are here and if I can't get a long one in sometime, I want to feel that I will still be ready.

So far, so good. This weekend I am using the Columbus Marathon as my 17.5 mile long run. If I feel good, I'll go 20 but force myself to run/walk the rest of the way (knocking on wood that I'm able to do this as last year I tweaked my knee early in the race and the last 10 miles were absolutely miserable - I really should've cut off at the half-marathon split and called it a day but I'm stupid/stubborn)

Last year the Columbus was COLD (34 at the start). I think part of the problem was I never was able to get warm. Even after 26 miles, I still had my gloves on and was still cold. The Clif shots in my pocket were darn near frozen even at the end.

If all goes well, in 3 weeks I'll do my 10/20 back-to-back Dopey training and in 6 weeks I run my first Space Coast!

Three weeks after that, another 10/20 weekend and then three weeks after that - Dopey! Can't wait!

 

[faneuil]

Pretzels are salt AND carbs, though. Hard to differentiate; or at least I would have a hard time working it out in my body.

Do you use the margarita, 3xsodium, shotbloks? That's what I use.

Not sure where else at ask this, but speaking of "fuel".

I crave sour gummies while running. What's up with that? The gummies I get, quick carbs. Not sure what the sour is about.

 

[BuckeyeBama]

So, we are under the 3 month mark and I'm curious as to how everyone's training is going? Mine was great until Monday when I had my long run of 15 miles to do. That last mile hurt my knees, my IT band, my calves. Ugh. I used my foam roller after and it helped tremendously! My road is only 4 miles long so I had to keep turning around and I'm hoping that's all it was. I have a 4 mile run to do today and then I'm part of a 4-man marathon relay team for Sunday. Crossing my fingers that my legs are ok!

What's everyone up to for their long runs? I decided to start mine early because I know how the winters are here and if I can't get a long one in sometime, I want to feel that I will still be ready.

I took 2 months off after running the Goofy in January. I have been running about 25-30 miles/week since spring, but almost exclusively runs of 4-6 miles (no long runs). I am trying to decide whether or not to run the WDW Marathon coming up.

I ran 10 miles last Sunday and felt fine - legs were great but my heart rate was a little high for that distance. I am going to run 12 this weekend and decide whether or not I can add on the miles to my long runs safely in time for the Marathon. If I believe that I can, I will register. Not looking for anything close to my PR time at Disney - just looking to have fun and avoid injury. Hopefully I can do it, but I have never tried to ramp up my mileage this quickly before, and I am no spring chicken.

 

[PrincessV]

The funny part is that based on previous experience, the next time I have to do 20 or go over 20 I'll be fine until I get to 20 and then again my body (or mind?) will react with a sudden "Warning! Warning! Previous running threshold has been exceeded! Prepare for emergency body unpleasantness!!!" ...

That's the point of training I guess, to get your body (and mind) used to it. Still, UGH.

YES!!! I know exactly what you mean. I've run 4 half-marathons and 3 10-milers, plus their training runs... doesn't matter. Any time I'm ramping mileage up, it works exactly as you describe: great up to the distance I did last, then full revolt against the next mile+. You'd think at some point my body would realize it's DONE THIS BEFORE!!! Nope.

 

[RnbwSktles]

YES!!! I know exactly what you mean. I've run 4 half-marathons and 3 10-milers, plus their training runs... doesn't matter. Any time I'm ramping mileage up, it works exactly as you describe: great up to the distance I did last, then full revolt against the next mile+. You'd think at some point my body would realize it's DONE THIS BEFORE!!! Nope.

Ahh...the dreaded wall

 

[disneyhorselover]

Ok, reading about everyone's training is stressing me out a little-now I feel way behind in mileage!

I have a few 14 milers under my belt from September, then I ran the ToT 10 miler. I've been fighting some minor injuries since then, so I've been sticking to shorter runs (longest has been 7), but keeping my mileage around 20 miles a week. I plan to do 13 this weekend, cut back to 8 next weekend, and am registered for a half on Nov 2nd. After that, my plan builds up pretty steadily to reach 20 three weeks before the marathon. It doesn't leave me much room for error, but I'm hoping it will work.

I train at a higher intensity than I usually run in Disney races (I love to stop for pictures and take it all in) so I'm hoping that will help get me through the marathon if my training falls a little shorter than it should (for me).

 

[Chiomaca]

YES!!! I know exactly what you mean. I've run 4 half-marathons and 3 10-milers, plus their training runs... doesn't matter. Any time I'm ramping mileage up, it works exactly as you describe: great up to the distance I did last, then full revolt against the next mile+. You'd think at some point my body would realize it's DONE THIS BEFORE!!! Nope.

I hit that point at different times - for some reason when I'm running a 20-miler, I'm fine until about 17 or 18. But when I'm running 10-12 miles, my body starts complaining at 6 or 7. It has to be completely psychological, but it happens every single time. I keep telling myself "You've run so much farther than this before, why are you complaining NOW?"

 

[DOOM1001]

I've never hit the wall running the Disney full,mentally at least,I enjoy the race so I just want to keep going.The one thing that's amazing is that every time I run the Disney full right around mile 17,at the same spot every year I feel my quads cramp up a bit,nothing painful but It makes me walk for a bit,take a GU and some water at the next stop and it goes away.It may come back once or twice before the finish but I always find it amazing how the first time is as I'm entering WWoS,its like the muscle knows the distance.

 

[PrincessV]

Ahh...the dreaded wall

Tear down that wall!!!

I hit that point at different times - for some reason when I'm running a 20-miler, I'm fine until about 17 or 18. But when I'm running 10-12 miles, my body starts complaining at 6 or 7. It has to be completely psychological, but it happens every single time. I keep telling myself "You've run so much farther than this before, why are you complaining NOW?"

In addition to the please-no-further-than-what-I-ran-last-time wall, I'm ready to clock out in miles 4-6 in EVERY run, no matter the distance. It's bizarre... and consistent, lol! 5 mile run? the last mile is hell. 10 mile run? 4-6 sucks, and then I'm like a new person. Which is why 10Ks are just pure evil, as far as I'm concerned: I finish in that bad place, instead of getting through it and finding the light on the other side, lol!

I've never hit the wall running the Disney full,mentally at least,I enjoy the race so I just want to keep going.

I never had, either, until PHM this year. Day 3 of my Triple Crown Challenge... pretty sure I hit my "wall" when I rolled out of bed that morning. It was pretty much 13.1 miles of WALL form that point on.

 

[SunDial]

I've never hit the wall running the Disney full,mentally at least,I enjoy the race so I just want to keep going.The one thing that's amazing is that every time I run the Disney full right around mile 17,at the same spot every year I feel my quads cramp up a bit,nothing painful but It makes me walk for a bit,take a GU and some water at the next stop and it goes away.It may come back once or twice before the finish but I always find it amazing how the first time is as I'm entering WWoS,its like the muscle knows the distance.

How often do you take a GU while running a full? Do you hit every water stop? How about the bananas i have heard that are on the course?

I enjoyed the 10 mile. Took a GU at 3 1/2 and 7 1/2.

 

[SunDial]

pretty sure I hit my "wall" when I rolled out of bed that morning.

I have to remember this one