#capetownmarathon — Public Fediverse posts

A quick check in with marathoners who’ve been tapering and are running this weekend

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It’s #CapeTownMarathon week & I’m processing. It’s been a long training block—18 weeks. It was needed because I came from the couch to 4 weeks of training to a half marathon.

I needed to build a base & work toward the marathon. I’ve loved and hated the journey. I’ve learned a lot about myself, health and got to appreciate community anew.

I will write more about running post-marathon.

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This past week I did all runs as planned. The easy and recovery runs—all of them. I did an 8K tempo run which was a tempo effort I was was happy with. Haven’t been able to do one that long in a while.

I thought it was the most challenging run I would do this week, until the long run. Well that one is for another post.

The challenge for the tempo was going by feel. It was also about the self talk and the mind.

Another week closer to #CapeTownMarathon

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So grateful for #parkrun a community for runners at all different levels. Great way to start my weekends. I often use it as a recovery run. Was great today not chasing any PBs etc besides embracing the easy run.

16 weeks to #CapeTownMarathon and still loving the journey of getting there to start AND finish.

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The easy / recovery run isn’t easy sometimes. It can be hard to hold back when you can run & want to run faster. Sometimes I do it right, this Saturday’s run was so hard in terms of holding back.

Slowly building up the longer runs as I train to start and finish @capetownmarathon.

Runners, how do you “check yourself” so that you’re not running faster / harder than you should be?

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One of the hardest things about running / training, maybe anything is getting started.

Another run in towards #CapeTownMarathon

Follow journey on https://blessing.run

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