Unknown territory

So, this was the week when I entered unknown territory - until yesterday I'd never run further than half marathon distance, but I completed 14.06 miles in Greenwich Park in a time of 2 hours 22 minutes 49 seconds, an average pace of 10mins 09secs per mile. Very happy with my run - while I was starting to stiffen up in the hamstring area towards the end, I didn't run out of energy and could have gone on a little longer.


I also wore the fuel belt I plan to use for the marathon for the first time - from what I've read I need to eat/drink 30-60g of carbohydrate per hour so I intend to fill the two bottles in the belt with slightly watered down fruit juice and a sprinkle of salt, and take some jaffa cakes and jelly babies to make up the rest of my carb requirements.


I tried all of this out yesterday and it seemed to work fine, although I think the pocket in the fuel belt will be too small for all of the food I'll need come marathon day so I may have to wear another belt or put some in my shorts pockets.


Long slow run aside, I did a couple of 4 mile runs in Dulwich on Friday and today, and while I didn't complete my full training plan for this week which also included a 7 mile run at race pace, I'm pretty happy with how things went considering the knee trouble I've had over the past few weeks.


So my total for the week was 22.4 miles, bringing my overall total to 65.61. Next week my long slow run increases to 15 miles. I hope to run 4 miles on Friday and Sunday again, but maybe fit in another run during the week if I can.