Before I even ran my first marathon, I was already registered for Columbus Marathon! My training plan officially started Sunday, June 28th, but it has been pretty low mileage so far. I'm so excited to start building my mileage again! So far, my first couple weeks of training for my second marathon have looked like this: Week of June 22nd - 14.90 miles at an average 10:48 pace Week of June 29th - 20.14 miles at an average 11:02 pace Week of July 6th - 18.01 miles at an average 10:39 pace I'm off to a great start! I'm so proud of my long runs so far (6.39 miles at 10:50 pace, 10.01 miles at 10:36 pace, and 11.51 miles at 10:34 pace) because I felt amazing on all of them! I started marathon training with a brand new pair of Mizuno Wave Rider 18s. I was running in Asics Gel Kayano 21s before, so we'll see how I feel about this change. I tried a hot yoga class last week for the first time, and absolutely fell in love with it! I've been doing yoga consistently for a while now, and will definitely be adding more hot yoga into my training. Nutrition-wise, things have been pretty close to perfect the last couple weeks. My macros are pretty consistently around 235 C, 110 P, 40 F. I'm eating a mostly clean/IIFYM diet because ice cream (!). When it comes to "unhealthy" foods, I'm looking more at the ingredients (limiting high fructose corn syrup, partially hydrogenated oils, and preservatives). There are a few things I'm planning on doing differently than how I trained for my first marathon. First, I had skipped quite a few of my shorter long runs (10-13 mile runs) and assumed I would be ok to jump back in my training plan with a 15 mile run. I ended up taking my long runs (15-20 miles) really slowly and walking a lot, and I was so sore from these that I also skipped a lot of my runs during the week. I'm blaming most of this on the weather, since we had a really bad winter, and I'm hoping I'll be a little bit better about training for this marathon. The other thing I wish I would have done differently was more hill work, since Nashville's course was very hilly; the first 17 or so miles were constant rolling hills, which was completely exhausting and ended with me walking the last 3-4 miles of the race. Even though Columbus Marathon is a fairly flat course, I think training on hills a little bit will only make me stronger on race day. Despite the fact that everyone says not to try anything new the week before race day, I spent the day before my first marathon walking around Nashville in a brand new pair of cowboy boots. I got blisters. Lesson learned. Over the weekend, I went with Mustafa to Run Fest, the official kickoff for Columbus Marathon training! I ran the half last year, but for some reason hadn't heard about this event. I'm so happy I went! There was lots of free food, and I got to see this year's finisher medal. I'm so excited that training for my second marathon is off to a great start! I can't wait to see how amazing my PR will be :)
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Hello, my name is Alyssa!I'm a momma to Emerson Lilly and two fur babies, a distance runner, and just a girl full of sparkle and quirks. I love traveling to races and exploring new places to run! I started this blog in 2014 as more of a journal to keep track of training for my first marathon, and I've continued to post about training, races, and other things happening in my life. Also, I'd like to be your best friend. :) Categories
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