• Really just the same as for every other marathon •
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With taper time arrived for Philadelphia Marathon (11/22), the usual apprehension and second guessing begins. My has extra reason for apprehension and second guessing.
I came off a spring with little running due to 2 broken toes (iCandybyWangC.com and elsewhere unless otherwise specified). My first double-digit long run came in the form of a Shawmont Ave effort at the end of July. That was the setup to my 3-month marathon-training cycle.
The plan was to do a 5½-hour marathon with Ironette. That would emphasize distance work, but navigating new-job expectations for both of us made optimal weekly distances challenging. My maxes were a 29-mile week and a 30-miler. It was still too much and I developed left knee pain, likely from ramping up too quickly, according to my physical therapist. On the positive side, I got 3 over-20-mile runs in and 2 near-there.
Ironette ended up having to cancel her race plan. I managed to find another marathon friend to hang with for Philly (I kind of still needed that, because I’ve become such a socially driven runner.
The race is now days away and the prospect of Philadelphia is actually what every other marathon has been so far: Take what the training has allowed and just execute.
–CtCloser (Calvinthe) “Negative Split or Positive Splat” #dothedue (iCandybyWangC.com)
FINE PRINT ¶Details used with permission. ¶Text by Calvin Wang (Wäng), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (CreativeCommons.org). ¶Cross-published: Facebook Shawmont Running Club (ZY Weekly Newsletter 11/7/26 [Facebook]), Shawmont Running Club website (ShawmontRunningClub.com), Ruminations by CtCloser. ¶This website posting: Rumination with added caption, duration, and enumeration.
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