Marathon Training: Week 2-5 or I’m Terrible at Updating.
I have no excuse really for not updating. I simply haven’t taken the time to just sit down and document how my training has been coming along.
It’s kind of difficult though because I have the Brooklyn Half Marathon coming up, so I can’t strictly follow the Marathon training plan as listed below:
Why?
Because I have the Brooklyn Half Marathon on 19th of this month, so instead of doing 2.5 miles as my “long run” during week 4, I did 10 miles as training.
Since in my last post, I talked about several things I wanted to do differently during a long run, I decided to test some stuff out.
It was a warmer day–I believe it was in the 70’s–so I wanted to try taking in extra electrolytes before my run, as well as after my first hour of running and try eating eating a little something for breakfast as well as at the 5 mile mark.
So for breakfast, about an hr before my run, I drank a serving of Dr. Berg’s Electrolyte Powder and had 2 large eggs scrambled with 1 tsp of pesto mixed in. Nothing too heavy to potentially upset my stomach.
About 20 before my run, I then drank a serving of exogenous ketones and we did our run, but we had to do it in 2 segments. The first segment, we did 3.25 miles as part of the NYRR Open Run Highland Park, and the second segment was done later as a 7.23 mile run starting from Woodhaven Queens and ending in Lower East Side Manhattan.
As planned, I took more electrolytes at around the 1 hr mark of running in the form of 1 Salt Stick capsule and then ate some Macadamia Nut Butter at the 5th Mile. I had a really difficult time eating the Nut Butter as I opened the package wrong and it was getting everywhere, and really sticky. I have to either get used to opening and eating the Nut Butter or eat something else. I think I’ll try eating something else. Like the pepperoni I originally planned on, but for some reason, didn’t do.
The run itself was pretty difficult to me. Not because I couldn’t handle the mileage, but because the day before the run, I did back extension exercises and my lower back was very sore. I guess I should avoid any lower back exercises before a long run.
Well, that’s all for now. I’ll try to keep a more consistent schedule in updating.
Until next time.
