18 weeks to go!  Week one of training underway

As part of my build up I have taken part in a new challenge for me, running everyday in December.  Previously my maximum consecutive days of running must have been 10 or 11 days.  I started 2 days early so today was my 25th day of consecutive run days and its been great fun!  It has been kept to mainly low mileage runs and some very steady.  But also done a few parkruns, cross country and 10k races.

So today I ran 1.5 mile warm up, 4 miles tempo and 1.5 miles warm down with some strides, this was my first “proper” training run for London Marathon.  I should have done this yesterday but my ribs have been hurting after mowing the lawn lol.

The plans and theory I am following (with some modifications to accommodate races and club nights) are in this excellent book, Advanced Marathoning.

In other exciting news I have been selected by Intersport to try out and review the Salomon X-Celerate 2 GTX road shoes so I am looking forward to them arriving and putting them to the test on some long runs!