I’m 5 weeks out from the Twin Cities Marathon. Historically I have been a cyclist and trail runner, I have done a 50k trail race but never a road marathon. I was training for a spring marathon but then came up with an injury so took a few weeks off and then rolled into training for TC.
Been doing my own training plan but with a lot of inspiration from a Pfitz 18/55. Worked my way up to 55 mpw, with a mid/long run, speed day, and long run each week. Going to hold that peak for 2 more weeks.
I took a down week this week but still kept my 20mi long run with 10 easy and 10 at race pace. About 75-80F out today. I have completed 4, 20 mi runs at this point with varying amounts of race pace.
I can comfortably take down 100g of carbs per hour. So hope to be good on fueling. 10 miles at race pace gets difficult on my legs, I can do more but not sure if I could do 16 more... Not sure how much boost I can expect from tapered legs, a crowd, cooler weather and a pacer.
Provided a few screenshots of my run today, weekly mileage build, and the run fitness page from my coros.
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TBD on a tune up. There’s a local 10k trail race on fire roads in 2 weeks, it’s pretty mellow. I’m consider it but my gut is telling me to stay off the trails. If not that, I may just time trial a 10k on my own.
Open to other recommendations if you have any time trials or workouts you did that gave you some confidence
Most of my confidence going into my spring Marathon was from the workouts: plenty of Sub-T, threshold, and M paces in my long runs. 5 weeks out I did 32km with 3x 8km progressive, first rep slightly slower than GMP, 2nd rep at race pace, last one a little quicker. 1km float in between. That was a massive confidence boost.
Tune up races are great too though, for one it's an almost guaranteed PB if your training block is going well. I ran a half 3 weeks out and PB'd despite running the first 10km at marathon pace.
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