The past week or so I've had to ease in and out of running. The previous week I cut my running short due to both of my feet being sore. I think my left foot was sore due to running too many miles in my shoes. My left foot has been sore for the last week because of rolling my ankle after coming down on a small branch during a speed workout. Well, I added in some healing time and switched to a new pair of shoes and I'm at about 90% on both feet which is good! Last week I only ran 32 miles but this week I got in some good quality runs and topped out at 45 miles.
My speed work and marathon pace runs are right on target if not a little ahead of where they should be. This is a great sign but I don't want to get too confident as there's a long way to go before June! Now I just need to run smart and ease off when there's an issue and train hard when I'm feeling good. I'm starting to think about a nutrition plan for the marathon which is probably where I messed up last time. I'm leaning towards just relying on gels and water...no gatorade this time. When I start getting up into the high teens long runs I'll experiment and see how my body reacts to this.
Today's run was the best run I've had this week. I ran 15 miles and started out with a nice easy pace. For about 8 or so miles I kept the pace at about a 7:10. From there I settled in around 7 to 7:05 for a few more miles. At Mile 12 I ramped up the pace and finished up the run with the last 3 miles averaging about 6:35 for a faster finish. All in all not too bad and very little foot discomfort.
Finally, I need to decide which pair of shoes to wear for the marathon. I'll most likely be done with my second pair of Newtons long before the marathon so I'll need to decide whether to stick with those or try something else. I've ordered two more pair of shoes to try out. In the mail are a pair of Saucony Kinvara and a pair of Saucony Mirage. I'm going to try the duo and train in the Mirage and race in the Kinvara's to see how well they feel. There's a couple of 5 and 10k races coming up so I'll get a chance to try these out. I ran on a treadmill with both of those shoes at a running store a week ago and they both felt like fast shoes. I'm hoping these can be my marathon shoes! We'll see!
Keep running folks!
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