Last Long Run Done!

With 4 weeks to go, it’s probably my last longish run, but I managed to get out today and struggle around 30km at a steady 5min/km pace. Overall I felt quite good. There wasn’t much in my legs, but I was fine shuffling along at that pace. Any hills towards the end and I would have been a broken man.

The next two weekends are taken up with the Long Course Weekend and a recce of the Outlaw, and that just leaves the weekend before the Outlaw, which should be a winding down affair.

There’s a part of me that now wishes I had pushed myself harder so I could have been more prepared. That’s probably one of the dangers of the social world we live in. I like putting my activities up on Strava, but that also means I get to see what other friends are doing and even more dangerous is looking at the training groups for the Outlaw and IM Wales. From a Strava perspective, I have been looking to do maybe 10 hours/week over the past month or so if I’ve been lucky. However, Strava only shows the duration of your activity. It doesn’t take into account the time to get ready, or to get showered after and put everything away. That doesn’t count as training but it still counts as time away from family. I guess if I did fall down somewhere, it was not making every second count. If I have a chance to put in some extra miles, I rarely took it. I didn’t even follow a training program. Instead, I just made up what to do listening to my own body and looking up articles on the internet.

I first a marathon (London) back in 2005. I remember seeing a sign that second thoughts is what happens before marathons. I guess that’s also true for an ironman.