My 2021 London Marathon Training Plan
Back in December, I started what was to be an 18-week training cycle with the notion of potentially running a spring marathon.
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Category: Training
Winter of 2020 – Week 10
There was another snow warning to start the week and then on Wednesday and Friday, too. I had a disappointing marathon-pace workout on Sunday but a great interval session on Wednesday. But, the week ended in disaster after I tripped during an easy run, breaking two fingers and skinning my knee!
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Winter of 2020 – Week 9
The week started with snow – about two inches and then we got two more on Tuesday. I ran loops on the salted roads in my neighborhood to avoid slick pavement but my mid-week was back on the trails. It wasn’t a bad week – I got my runs in despite the bad weather, but I missed the mileage goal by quite a bit.
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Winter of 2020 – Week 8
On Sunday, I belted out a 21-miler – my longest run by far since last April. I skipped Wednesday’s medium run, though. Now that COVID-19 cases in the county have dropped, I felt more comfortable returning to my gym. Next week might be interesting as the forecast calls for snow on Sunday…
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Winter of 2020 – Week 7
By Monday evening, my partner and I had moved into our new house! In anticipation, I ran long last Saturday but got back to training on Tuesday. Some severe eye pain caused me some concern, so I spend Wednesday resting and watching the inauguration but I was back running by Friday.
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Winter of 2020 – Week 6
It was a busy week getting ready for my move to a new house! I completed a marathon-pace run on Sunday and stayed on schedule until Wednesday when I moved the training calendar forward a day in anticipation that I wouldn’t run long on moving day next Sunday. On Thursday evening, I stayed late at the new house but still ran the next day.
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Winter of 2020 – Week 5
This was the hardest week that I’d had in a while. Purchasing a home on Monday took a lot of my mental and emotional energy and then work stress on Tuesday took what was left. By Wednesday, the day the U.S. Capitol was breached, I had nothing left. I took Friday off from running and hoped to rebound next week.
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2020 Year End Review
2020 started optimistically! In December, I joined an online group to train for the 2020 Boston Marathon and was starting to feel better after a disappointing 2019 New York City Marathon.
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Winter of 2020 – Week 4
Happy New Year! This year, my New Year’s Eve celebration was mild enough for a medium long-run the next day. While I managed to get my runs in this week, my thoughts were mostly on next week’s real estate closing. I was off from work this week, which enabled me to start some runs later in the morning.
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Winter of 2020 – Week 3
Without traveling this year, I was off from work having reached the coveted “use or lose” status with my annual leave. After a good marathon-pace run on Sunday, the home inspection for the new house my partner and I are purchasing had me on my feet more than usual on Tuesday and wrecked my medium run.
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