Hi there! Welcome back to my running blog towards the Spijkenisse Spark Marathon. With the event within one month I am still enjoying every trainingsrun - which might be the main benefit of a (little too) short marathon trainingsblock!
Today I did a progressive run in zone 2 and 3 with the following setup:
- Warmup 10 minutes, pace 4:55 - 5:10 / km
- block 1, 50 minutes, pace 4:45 - 4:55 / km
- block 2, 20 minutes, pace 4:25 - 4:35 / km
- cooling down
My results:
While it was tempting to go faster in the last 20 minutes, I sticked to the plan as the goal was to increase efficiency. Going to fast would only benefit top speed - but in a marathon that is useless if you can’t maintain the pace.
Looking forward: The marathon is within a month, I will need to consider a target pace within the next 2 weeks. My goal will foremost be to beat my PR (03:20:00), I feel ready to do that tomorrow. My main struggle is - should I aim high and risk not even beating my PR (or achieving my long term goal of 3:00:00)? Still plenty of time to think about this, but it is keeping me busy!
Shoutout: Last week my shokz open run pro mini gave no more sound on the right side. I love the product, but I was also close to the 2 year warrenty. I contacted their support and explained the situation, they asked me to send a short video where the product was displayed and the music was playing - zooming in on each side so it became obvious that indeed the right side was broken. The video was enough, they confirmed that I could get my set repaired/replaced but because I use it daily they offered me to just upgrade (for free) my product to shokz open run pro mini 2 (with a new 2 year warrenty) while not needing to sent back the original product. That is what I call service!
Happy running!