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Goal: Run a marathon, this July (ish), in a reasonable time (sub 4 would be great and a new pb!).
Current likelihood of it happening: Slowly disappearing!
I set this goal at the start of the New Year. It's not a resolution. And it's not an unreasonable goal. But I set it in order to implement what I've since learned in the Born to Run 2 book.
Running 42.2km isn't the A goal. Implementing changes to my running form and thereby increasing my joy of running and longevity in the sport is actually the A goal.
I'm doing okay at implementing the form fix stuff. Could I be doing better? Sure. But I'm doing fine. Average cadence has increased. I'm more familiar with and practising the exercises in the book more now than a couple of months ago. Overall, I'm moving my body more and that's a big win.
But I'm not getting in the mileage I would need in order to do a sub 4 hour marathon. To be honest, I don't really care. I'll probably do another marathon at some point. Doing a faster marathon won't make me a better or more loveable human.
I'm already awesome. Running 42.2km isn't going to change that.
But I'm happily implementing the make my body strong and healthy suggestions and if that eventually leads to me completing a fast marathon, or race of any distance, that will be a happy consequence of taking great care of myself while looking to find my athletic capabilities.
This was supposed to be a short post. It seems I digressed.
This week my steps looked like this:
Thursday was a fair bit lower than I might have liked but Saturday and Sunday made up for it.
These were my recorded walks:
The evening walk on the 27th was probably with Brad. The rest, based on the times, were probably solo, tapping walks. I am really, really, really loving this addition to my daily life. Tapping to process emotions works soooo much faster/better/easier when I'm moving. I love it.
These were my recorded all my runs:
The one labelled "Gold Coast Running" was attending the 12th anniversary of parkrun starting in Australia, at its first location: Main Beach. 🎇
And I've started doing more strength and conditioning sessions. I did it all in one go last week and recorded it:
This brings me to the "new plan" I mentioned in the title of this post:
Layering in more strength work.
I've written down all the exercise moves I like to do (e.g. push ups, pull ups, step ups, squats, dead lifts, etc), put them into the following categories:
Upper body (chest, arms, shoulders, neck)
Core (everything in my torso)
Lower body (legs and muscles surrounding the hips)
Daily workouts (low level minimal maintenance to care for my body long term)
And the plan is to do the daily ones most days (consistency over perfection) and the rotate between the other three categories so in a good week I do each of them twice.
That's it! That's the plan. That and continue doing high cadence runs, tapping walks, and dancing semi-regularly like nobody's watching 😉
Yes, they are my paw prints. Yes, I did go for one of those runs barefoot, on the concrete paths and local roads. (It had rained a lot and everything was super wet! Best time to run barefoot, I think!). Yes, the photos of my feet were taken by me. The screenshots are of my Garmin Connect App. That is all.
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