Manchester 0 Kirsten PB 1 Part 1 - the Journey

Well Manchester Marathon seems to have finally left my legs and it is time to reflect on how I got to the start. My journey to Manchester marathon has been a rather good one really from commencing of my training on January 1^st until April 6^th.  

Journey to the start Line

Coach Dale, from the best running club in Trentham, had devised number of training plans for club members and had agreed to pull on together for me/ My plan concentrated on 2 quality sessions a week; 5 minute intervals and a tempo run either parkrun or longer with the club tempo group; the other part of the plan was 3 runs focused around time rather than miles which would either by long, steady or recovery.  

Running for time rather than miles needed a little more focus and took a little getting used to, I am in a fully committed relationship with my garmin, and I tend to focus on miles rather than time.  To help me working it all out I asked Dale to give me an indication of the pace each run should be so I could develop a route.  There is nothing wrong with going out on a route and then realising that you were 20-30 minutes short and you need to make the minutes!!!

Fortunately they were a number of us from Trentham training for spring marathons, so there was plenty of company for the  quality sessions and we all felt the pain.  It also helped when someone was down someone would be on a high and we pulled each other through.

The weeks seem to fly by and there were some ups and downs, and before you know it I am going to bed at 9:30pm on Saturday 5^th April!!!  

I had all good intentions of going to bed nice and early, but with double checking my phone alarm, my kit, my trainers, my phone alarm and my directions to my friend who was giving me a lift it was 10:30!! 

So off went the light and I was asleep zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

To find out about my race day find it here.