I cooked my plan by not strength training
I’m training for a marathon in August. I’ve done a HM race to prep for the big one. It’s currently week 2 according to my marathon plan BUT now I’m doing run/walk and speed is down the drain.
4 months ago, I started using Hansons HM plan, to test my body if I can do high weekly mileage and only runs. It was hard, and I foolishly also did some speed work too. I reached 60k/week and couldn’t get higher, because I was slow, tired, i didn’t want to compromise sleep and get up at 4am.
Had a HM pb with a friend, 1 month before race, nice! But then everything gone downhill.
For the next 1 month I was always in bad niggle, shin splint, can’t walk properly, run is possible after a 5k warm up. I thought i needed energy so i ate so much I felt fat and can barely fit in most of my clothes. My hormone was bad, got the worst PMS, pimples all the time. The pain still there.
Then comes race day, didn’t beat my delulu pb goal. Took 1 week off afterwards, and was still struggling with the stairs.
So this week I’ve done an hour strength training, and I can now hop, run walk, it’s slow but it’s positive progress.
I still want to hit high weekly distance, but will all be easy with a day or 2 of squats lunges etc.
I’m changing my marathon plan now, def not Hanson anymore. I’m thinking Higdon novice 2 or int 1 but just easy runs. What do you reckon? Thanks in advance :)