Training Plans & Runs | 180 Mins Long Run

I did a 3 hour run last week. Felt terrible at 80 mins, like I was never going to finish. Niggles were cropping up, head wasn’t it, then come the end 180 mins, I was actually feeling much stronger and felt like I could have carried on. Point being, you’re out there for a long time, there will be highs and lows, but just cos you might be feeling bad at one point, doesn’t mean the rest of the run will be tough. Good luck and I hope you enjoy this one.

Coach Simon

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RPE

🙄 Just a fraction slow

PACE

Struggled with this one and just ran out of energy. Did fuel well I thought and tried to get the right amount of carbs in. Think I need to do these longer runs earlier in the day – just seem to find it harder in evening, compared with parkrun yesterday which was a doddle. Stomach started going a bit funny again as well which got in my head a bit. Kind of thinking of re-evaluating my marathon goal. To be honest, I’ll be quite happy just to complete it (in under 6 hour cutoff!) rather than trying to go for the sub 5 hours. Might take a bit of pressure off the time?

Andy Wood

Yeah I always think getting these done in the morning is very important. Running late in the afternoon can be much tougher. A good lesson learned there. I think you might find if you take away that time pressure for this one then it might help, and who knows you might even run a quicker time as a result. A new week always offer a new opportunity so we can kick on from here 💪