I have done this on sunday.
Did the bewl water half marathon route. Really enjoyed, still tired from the trip though. 2h28, 22km 6.40min/km. Strava says its my fastest half marathon ever, but my fastest was hastings half 1h59 , or lets say 2h and some more seconds more, because I stopped recording at 21km instead of the exact lenght of a half marathon…….
so annoying!!!!
I wonder if now I should already feel I am ready to run 57km, almost 3 times more than today, because if you asked me today I would probably say no. But we still have a few more months to train, I should see some improvements, right?!
It’s always natural to think that after a long run. I’ve done so many marathon sessions where my target pace has felt tough for say 90 mins and I’ve finished thinking how can I possibly do that for another 2 hours. But I did. And so many of the team have too. It’s about the cumulative effect of all the training that makes the difference rather than the individual long runs. So I think you’ll be fine. 3 females on the team did 50k ultras on Sunday and I think you are fitter than them already. Albeit they did walk a lot to be fair, but still got it done. So I’m not worried at the moment. Well done on such a great run today.
Coach Simon 🍊
