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Half Marathon Race

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10 Mins WU @ Easy Pace (RPE: 2)

13.1 Miles @ HM Pace (RPE: 5-8)

Stick to your goal pace early on and it should feel easy. Dig deep in those final 5km to achieve your goal.

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Coach Simon

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🤬 Way off pace today

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Where to start, erm…. Didnt have it in the legs today, from 6mi in I was struggling wanting to throw the towel in! Plodded for a bit as that’s all I had then dug deep and found something to finish. Way off today no excuses! Finished in 29th very disappointing, I’m struggling with longer distance at pace 🤷‍♂️. 42.58mi for the week.
Adam Judd
I know it’s a Mikel Arteta kind of quote, but “the result is always an outcome of the process”. Why did you start to struggle at 6 miles? Pretty simple really. The longest training run you’ve done at half marathon pace since we teamed up is 6 miles. Coincidence? Obviously entering the race was a last minute decision and meant the training had not been focused on 13.1 miles, hence why we probably didn’t get the outcome we wanted. But from a training perspective, it’s still a good run and we want to treat it like that. I’ve tweaked the plan going forward so if you run another half in mid November we’ll have two training runs at HM pace of 8 miles and 10 miles, which should leave you better prepared. If anything perhaps the biggest mistake was setting a slightly over ambitious target when we’d not done many half marathon sessions in the build up? So I think don’t be too disappointed in yourself for the actual race. It was our preparation (due to late entry) that was the real reason.
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Coach Simon