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8.20 more intense plan experimentation going well. just finished four days in a row of running. when i was training for my most recent half marathon, i seldom ran two days in a row (just thought it would be too much for me?). my body held up to the four days just fine. a beautiful break in heat/humidity helped me today. spirits are high as i attempt my third week in the thirties - hoping to hit around 35 miles this week. feeling like maybe i got this! and excited to rest tomorrow.
7.30 I’m actually at a perfect moment to switch plans (if I do). & while I was not perfectly following higdon plan (at all), I was almost exactly running the mileage for the plan I’m considering switching too. just calling out some gooood orderly direction
7.28 want to write about my running. spending a lot of time today looking into this idea that you shouldn't run more than 3 hours in marathon training (my current plan to do at least an 18 & 20 miler, which would probably take ~3:45min if things went well). the theory is basically that anything longer than 3 hours is just beating up your body so much it's not worth it. the solution is "stacked long runs," so you'd do like an 8 and then a 10 in a row (sat/sun basically). there is a plan associated with this school of thought but the plan involves running 6x a week which ummm...kind of turns me off. people say that it trains you for the "final 16 miles" by really leaning into cumulative fatigue (bc you're running so many miles per week & have only 1 rest day). idk i see the appeal particularly because the nyc marathon course is sooo hilly, and i'm afraid of the hills at the end particularly. people on reddit are like: THE PROFESSIONALS TRAIN NOT FOR THE BRIDGES BUT 5TH AVE. idk none of this is that deep bc i'll be lucky if i finish in 6 hours but i don'tttt know. i don't want to unnecessarily beat up my delicate corporeal form
wish i could take a bath