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Sorry to hear that. Best get it out of your system first.
5 or 6 days enforced rest isn't necessarily a bad thing at this stage, but you have to write off the lost time and try not to over-compensate once you're running again, because there's every chance of falling ill again otherwise.
Your main aim should be to finish the event in good order, your time is secondary. Hope it clears up soon.
Hope you're feeling better by now. Having just read this my concern would be that you are focussing on fell races rather than long runs on the road when you're quite close to your race. This was probably OK earlier on.
If you were only entering the marathon for fun that would be OK but with an ambitious target time you need some event specific training. There's a big difference between the steady pace needed on the road and the ups and downs of off road running even along paths.
This comes from a fell runner who ran his first road marathon last year and enjoyed it.
6 weeks to the marathon now :rolleyes: I ran the Guisb moors race on sunday, and did ok in 94mins, so if nothing else I felt this was a decent training run and it restored a bit of confidence after 8 days enforced abscence. Ran 10 miles on the road last night, running easily and getting round quite effortlessly in 68mins, tonight im going on the treadmill for some interval training, then Thursday doing 15 steady and sunday 20 odd. I will be running my marathon on the back of only two 20+runs, but plenty off 13-16 milers so im still hopeful of doing ok, we will see :eek:
Have you been able to keep up the training? The thread's been quiet for a fortnight.
ye had a good fortnights training, 3 runs of 16 - 19 mile have given me confidence I can run the distance. Did 5k on the track yesterday in 16:30 so still got some speed in the legs too! Doing a 6mile fell race 2moro, then a long run tuesday and sunday. Ive started running home from work for my longish runs as I can easily add extra distance onto them, this is proving ideal. Barely 3 weeks to the marathon, im thinking that due to my pretty erratic and interupted training earlier on, that I wont really need to add much of a taper into my plan of action! Just take it fairly easy in the week or so leading upto the event :)
Sounds like it's going well. I really wouldn't worry about the interruption, the rest may have done you good. A taper is still a good idea in the last 8 days or so, avoid the temptation to 'do' the race the week before. I'd generally run about 15 miles the weekend before, then all my other runs would be less than 8 miles, so that in the final week the marathon was about half that week's total mileage. Have you considered track reps such as 3 x 5000m (say 17 mins 30 secs with a 5 min recovery) which would give you leg pace and stride length on a forgiving surface. Not in the final week though, it's a hard session.
should be ok mate has long you do 3 to 4 20 plus long runs on the road and remember its time on your feet what counts when marathon training?good luck and what time you going for.
that sounds like a pretty hard core session bro, will give it a shot on thursday evening :-) taking into account I will be taking it easy for the week leading upto the marathon, I have 12 days training, which will go something like this, tues 18/19, wed easy treadmill, thu 3x5km intervals!, fri 10mile, sat off, sun 20+, mon easy treadmill, tues intervals, wed 10mile, thu20+, fri easy 5, 5k sat, taper....... sorted :-)
hoping for 2 45 wayne, but may come up short:p we will see....
by thats a tough session brotherton :p did the 5ks on the treadmill, I was little more than a pool of sweat by the end ! Did 21mile wed, the 3x5k session fri, 26mile in 3hr10 today :-) I was flying at the finish and my legs are fine now :-> Today has given me lots of confidence, one more mid distance run of about 17 in midweek and thats about it, roll on Edinburgh :-))))