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MARATHON TRAINING WEEK 10: Overheated

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Post date March 17, 2014
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After finishing WEEK 8 with a half marathon, I couldn’t believe it when I realised I was kicking off WEEK 9 by leisurely running 7 miles!

I felt tired but determined and running at night was a welcomed change to the sun & heat that I experienced on the weekend running the half. All in all it was a pretty decent effort on my side.

I had swapped my medium long run with my Tuesday shorter run, but despite running around 21 miles in 3 days, I ended up doing a speedy 4 miles and if I am honest, I have no idea how I had the energy to push myself to do it! To my great surprise it felt relatively good and I was mighty proud of myself.

On Thursday I wasn’t in the mood to run despite the relatively short distance. I felt very sluggish whilst running it, with my legs tired and my mind a bit foggy. Did it at an ok pace but wasn’t very satisfying! (my pissed off look proves the point haha)

Went swimming as normal on Saturday morning and on Sunday I was only meant to run 10 miles, but I somehow agreed to running 14 miles with Cata instead. It was a super sunny day, much warmer than the half marathon the previous week, but also a lot breezier which was nice!

Started out ok and felt good plus kept a good pace until about 11 miles in – that’s when I started to overheat and kind of lose my grip of the situation. Incredibly frustrating and something that is starting to worry me more & more.

Thankfully we stopped at ASDA at mile 11 so I could buy more water and drink it plus pour it over my head and face. Not sure how to cope with the situation on race day if it’s super warm. I guess try to hydrate as much as possible, but even then, the sun just heats my head up so much I feel a bit delirious and out of it.

Any suggestions on how to avoid an overheated head/face?

The weather for this week looks a bit grimmer and this is what I have planned:

MARATHON TRAINING WEEK 10

MON: REST – Done
TUE: Strength training & 4 miles – Done
WED: 7 miles – Done
THU: Strength training & 3 miles – Not done due to badly twisting my ankle previous night
FRI: REST – Done
SAT: 15 miles – Done
SUN: Swimming – Not done but did around 4-5 miles walking instead

What a lovely weekend!

This was my exhausted but happy face on Friday evening when I finished work – what an intense but lovely day and what a great finish to an exhausting week!

I was super chuffed that our first official “decorative purchase” for the flat went up on the wall too! Oh, our beloved pineapple (that we got from Print Club London), just makes me smile every time I look at it.

After the roofer left Saturday morning, we went swimming and then rented a car to quickly drop off some stuff at Lewisham recycling centre.

We then had a walk through Forest Hill & Sydenham, all the way up the hill to Crystal Palace for some lunch and antique shopping. What a view!

I was very pleasantly surprised with the lunch we had in one of the pubs on the corner of the park – the sun was shining and I was so full & content that I could have easily fallen asleep on that bench!

Ended up buying this “shabby chic” mirror for £75 – don’t care what people are saying – it WILL look AMAZING in a matte, off-white colour (with some potential gold detailing) in our living room on the big wall above the radiator.

Finished off the weekend by cooking a Lancashire hotpot – took me roughly 3 hours after my long run & it tasted nice, but I think the recipe I got from Waitrose had too much stock in it! Next time (if there will be one…) I will definitely use around 300ml stock and not 500ml!

On The Run #3

March is my anniversary month so I thought I’d share some music that the boy has introduced (or re-introduced) into my life. Safe to say I wouldn’t usually listen to most of this music, but I find it incredibly good to run to!

Once again it might be worth mentioning that loads of stuff is missing because I don’t want it to be a 12 hour playlist, so yeah, artists like (for example) Jay-Z had to stay off it as I might just do a running playlist dedicated to him (or maybe him & Bey, we shall see).