Training Plans & Runs | Sunderland Half Marathon

Still only week 6 of this plan so don’t put any pressure on yourself. One thing about a half marathon is getting the pace right. How hard you are working at any given stage will determine if the pace is right.

Miles 1-3 – RPE: 3-4
Miles 4-6 – RPE: 5-6
Miles 7-10 – RPE: 6-7
Miles 11-13 – RPE: 8-9

So sometimes, especially if it’s not a goal race, asking yourself, how hard am I working? Rather than how fast am I going? That will lead to a better race. Also the other question to keep asking is….How is my form?

Try some of these questions during this race, rather that worrying too much about time and pace. If you keep training smart, whatever time you run here, you’re going to have much quick half marathons in the future. So need to go bonkers in this one.

Coach Simon

FEEDBACK

6 ENJOYMENT

8 RPE

13:11

PACE

A little bit disappointed with this one, I was hoping to get closer to 2:40 but I think even without the fall I had lost it after the half way point. I started off feeling good but I think I still need to work on my fuelling, I think I left it too late to eat anything. I need to work on a good strategy for Palma. When I tripped up I grazed my knee, but I haven’t done any real injuries to it luckily and I still finished in a slightly better time than Carlisle!

Sarah Taylor

It’s good to be disappointed. It shows you care. But it can be upsetting, I know from personal experience of my race yesterday. Can I ask what is your current fuelling strategy? Have I asked that yet? It’s definitely an important discussion though. All I would say, is if this race wasn’t booked in already when you came to me, I probably wouldn’t have had you running a half marathon at this stage of the training plan. So basically the fact you can get around a half with 5 months to spare tells me we are well ahead of schedule. It’s still very early in the training and your best results will probably come in the Autumn, so for now see this as a really good training run. Sorry to hear about your fall and your leggings, I know that can always be a shock to the system, I’m glad you are ok though and you have a new medal. We dust ourselves off and we go again. Well done Sarah.