Morning 17k run
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!
Great progress! It sounds like you are ready to beat your personal best already, but cutting twenty minute off would awesome. The only real question is are you ready for that challenge? You have a month to make that decision, I can't wait to hear what you decide. Just be careful to not bite off more than you can chew if you get what I mean!
Haha yeah that is the real question- know exactly what you mean. This is also where the missing weeks come in play. I now need to either do a test run (at marathon pace) and sacrifice my taper / recovery. Or .. focus on taper and run without a real test run on a pace that not only beats my marathon pr but also my half marathon pr haha.
My main goal is too look back happy after the run - secondairy the ambition as I can take more time in 2026 to do a full camp. Difficulty is that I feel I am close :) so Let’s see how next weeks will go.
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Have you got any parkruns near you? They are only a 5 km free timed event but you could include one inside one of your longer runs
https://www.parkrun.co.nl/
Ow that is awesome! Yeah I checked the website, there is one within 10 km of my house! Cool to incorporate that in a run!
Thank you!
We did one in Leiden, when we were there earlier this year. We like to collect them ever where we travel.