Happy Mother's Day

Message to all the moms out there.. from a 6 years old boy:)

Break-in Period

Read this from one of the Runner's World article. A pair of new shoes have to go through a 6 weeks break-in period before they are marathon ready.

Since it is about 6 weeks left before KLIM, I decided to bring out the birthday present from my good friends to do a recovery run this morning.

Not sure whether it is due to the pain incurred from the 20k run yesterday or the new shoes still too tight, my toes started to suffer from about 7km onwards. One of the toes even has blister after the run.

Not wanting to risk injury less than 2 months from the big occassion, I have to cut short the planned 16km run to 10km.

Will have to try the shoes out again a few more times to see whether the condition will improve. Otherwise I will have to run with one of the old pairs.. hiya...

Fishing

This is our new hobby - fishing.

There is an old mining lake near our housing area. A lot of residents fish there on the weekends. My son has been asking for a fishing rod since one of the uncles there let him hold it 2 weeks ago.

Yesterday we finally bought the rod for him and went to the lake to try it out. Not a bad result for the first outing, we managed to catch 21. However all of them were too small so we decided to release them back to the lake.

Hopefully one day we'll go deep sea fishing together.

6k short of 50k this week

This week's mileage is slightly better than last week. Managed to achieve 44k, and that leave room for improvement next week:)

As usual, my weekend long run is on Saturday. This time we decided to do it in Taman Bukit Jalil again.

Unfortunately again like last week, I suffer just to complete the 20k run. This time it was my toes which give problem. This is something new to me. There were some pains at the toes in the past but not as bad as this time.

One of the reason I think could be because of the shoes. I was wearing a different pair of shoes this week. The Saucony Triumph 5.

Thing that puzzles me however is that I have been wearing this shoes for a while for various long runs, including GE20k, Bidor Half Marathon and my first 30k run. It could also be the terrain and the way I land.

Have to find out the root cause quickly. It will not be an easy task to run with painful toes for 42k.

Low mileage

So far my weekly mileage has been stagnant at between 30 to 40km per week. This week's mileage is only 34.2km. That's inclusive of the 20km long run yesterday and it's full 8km short of a full marathon distance over a week. That's a Red Flag if you are running a project!!

From all the marathon training resources I have read so far, one has to reach the peak mileage of at least 60km per week in order to survive the last 10km of a marathon. Image above is an example of a marathon rookie program downloaded from Runner's World website.

It's time to be more serious about my training program starting tomorrow. Target mileage next week is 50km. It's do or die situation now since it's only 6 weeks to tapering period.

Not sure which runner said this - we must respect the distance..

Relaxing

The boys are enjoying themselves at the Ogawa massage chair. It's massage chair road show time again for Mother's day.

It'll be good to have one after the long run:)

20k but suffer like hell

Today is my weekly weekend long run routine. Only 2 persons (CP and me) managed to make it this time.

We decided to go to Taman Bukit Jalil since it's nearer for both of us.

I woke up at 5am and arrived at the car park just before 5.30am. CP is already there waiting. Only ¹other car in the car park.

We started the run at slow 7+ pace. The plan is to go around the park's 4km route 7 times or 3 hours which ever come earlier.

The first loop was relatively easy. It took us slightly more than 29mins to complete it. However half way through on the 2nd loop, my stomach started to ache and I have to rush to the toilet. I told CP to proceed with the run.

After the toilet break, my body started to react abnormally. I started to sweat a lot more than usual. I completed the next 2 loops at around 28mins per loop pace then the 4th loop at 29mins pace. I realised I have finished the water I brought with me at this point. So I have to make a detour to buy drink from the stall outside.

After that I returned to the run and saw CP already half way on his 5th lap. I continue to sweat at the abnormal rate and on top of that seems to be losing the strength to run. So I decided to call it a day and walk for the rest of the 5th lap. It took almost 40mins to complete that last lap.

I return to my car to bring out another bottle of drink and return to the track to wait for CP. He came in about 15mins later after completed his 6th lap.

Another low mileage week this week. Apart from Bidor and another 9k run I did yesterday. This is only my 3rd run this week. Look like time is running out quickly and I have to increase my weekly mileage soon. Otherwise it will be a tough tough KL marathon..