How not to train for a marathon

Happy New Year! Since I've been away for the last couple of weeks I've not updated the blog for my final run. That happened on the Wednesday before Christmas and it's now New Year's Day.

Wednesday is obviously my long run day, and this time I was due to run 16 miles I think. To cut a long story short I ended up running a shade under 20 miles and hurting my right knee. Badly enough that I still haven't been out running two weeks later, and probably won't be for a while.

Needless to say I'm pretty disappointed. The only good thing to come out of it, is that I'm pretty confident that I could have run the 26 miles that night if I'd needed to. It would have hurt, it wouldn't have been quick, but I'd have got there - and that's the main thing.

In terms of time, I was pretty happy to complete it in under 3 hours, with an average speed of over 11kph. It was a little disappointing that the outward 9.9 miles took me just 78 minutes, while the return took me 92 minutes.

Can't wait to be back!