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Virginia Plain · April 25, 2016, 02:25:58 PM

What do you guys do the week before a marathon? What kind of exercise/physical activity do you do?

Handsome Jack · April 25, 2016, 02:38:39 PM

exactly what Hal told me to do

3 m run
4x400
2 m run
rest
rest
2 m run
marathon

Virginia Plain · April 25, 2016, 02:44:20 PM

Quote from: mangled mouth on April 25, 2016, 02:38:39 PM
exactly what Hal told me to do

3 m run
4x400
2 m run
rest
rest
2 m run
marathon

Nope. I'm not running. I never run the week before a long race, marathon, 1/2, 10 miler, I don't care how long. No running for me.

witchypoo · April 25, 2016, 03:04:14 PM

full-body whining. there's heaving from chair to chair involved.

Fast Eddie · April 25, 2016, 07:01:54 PM

Saturday - last semi long run of 16K
Sunday - rest
Monday - 8K
Tuesday - rest
Wednesday - 5K
Thursday - rest
Friday - rest (maybe easy 3K if I didn't spend a lot of time walking around the expo)
Saturday - rest
Sunday - RACE DAY!

Richard21142 · April 25, 2016, 07:44:11 PM

This is what I did the week before my first marathon:

Monday: 13 miles
Tuesday: 6 miles in a hail storm
Wednesday: 10 miles - 4 in the morning and 6 in the afternoon
Thursday: 12.1 miles - 6.1 in the morning and 6 in the afternoon
Friday: 4 miles with 2 x 440 fast
Saturday: 4 miles
Sunday: Marathon in snow storm - 2:59.06 58th out of 500

Belgian Lace · April 25, 2016, 09:53:26 PM

Eat pretzels and fret.

This is what I'm doing:

M-4
T-easy row
W-4
T-easy bike
F-total rest
S-go!

Handsome Jack · April 26, 2016, 04:47:46 PM

I never like a rest day before any race. Just a 2 mile run, otherwise I tend to feel sluggish. This is apparent on my training runs after a rest day - it's always 2 days later that I run the best.

wherestheportojohn · April 26, 2016, 09:09:33 PM

I'll sympathy

and

(I don't enter events)

Good luck, racers!

Fionn mac Cumhail · April 27, 2016, 08:09:47 PM

I eat...I get angry...

Fionn mac Cumhail · April 30, 2016, 01:43:53 AM

Update, yo!!

Ice Cream · April 30, 2016, 06:55:56 AM

I do a ten minute run the day before the race.

Virginia Plain · May 04, 2016, 08:48:39 AM

Quote from: Fionn mac Cumhail on April 30, 2016, 01:43:53 AM
Update, yo!!

I LOVED it! I ran terrible, it was god awful hilly, insanely over crowded but I loved it

Pittsburgh is a great city to run in.

Zapatista · May 07, 2016, 11:12:24 PM

First
Mon-4.97 34:40 (I like to so something fast on the track a 6-8 days before)
Tue-6
Wed-5
Thur-0
Fri-2
Sat-0
Sun 3:21:45 Ocean State
Mon-2
Tue-went to sleep at 7:30 PM

Fastest:
Sat- 2 in 12:12
Sun-11.5
Mon-7.75
Tue-7.74
Wed-8
Thur-5.5
Fri-Drove from Burlington VT to Newport RI
Sat-2
Sun-3:11:04 Ocean State
Mon-2
Tue-3
Wed-4
Thur-0

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