So my last post was 22nd Jan 2016 when I edited my post regarding my deferral of Manchester Marathon until 2017
I had a plan and it failed...BUT I know where I went wrong and am laying it out here
The Ultra...the holy grail, where I wanted to be and what happened to get there?? Injury during training I developed Plantar Fasciitis and of course I ignored it and within a week of the race being completed (41 miles in 10 hrs 10 mins) I'd gone for a run one word....STUPID!!
Looking back at the whole process in training for the Ultra I went about it the wrong way I was hooked on MAF and thought it would be my cushion or safety net and it wasn't my training wasn't suitable as can be seen from my Strava and the table below
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| The (- minus) numbers and % are decreases |
As you can see there is a big drop between weeks some massive increases and decreases which didn't help my training at all going from 0 mile week to 13.4 or 0.9 to 18 miles per week
So what is my plan well EHM 10K is just under 5 weeks away and I'm not near running 10k yet (I probably could but it would be a struggle) I went to the physio on 20th July and was told I can run again slowly starting with 2 miles per run and increase 10% or 20% per week so this is where I'm at
I decided to split a weekly mile increase over the numbers of runs I do either 0.25 or 0.5 of a mile per run to build up slowly but to give me time to get to 10k and see how it feels I think it's the easiest method for me to increase my mileage and I'll continue it to get to the distance needed for my other races in October and November and then build fully until April for Manchester
I've also started Primal eating and while I've had a slip after 6 days I've dropped straight back into it with no issues
The best thing is I'm on my way back it's slowly and steadily taking shape BUT let's be honest if we wanted quick results we wouldn't be doing MAF
