I finished the Cleveland Marathon last week. It took me almost 4 hours. Now I know that it’s been 7 years since my last marathon, actually since my last road race. But I think the thing that really did me in was the ‘new’ training method I used for the past several years.
For the last 7 years, I have trained without speed work. No fartleks, no track work, no tempo runs.
Nothing.
I did run plenty of long runs and the only timing I used was to run for 1.5 hours, 2 hours, 2.5 hours with no regard to distance. Great for working off stress, but not so good for improving performance.
It all comes back to the notion of what gets measured, gets managed.
Time to get back to measurements and managing performance before hitting the Akron Marathon in September.
