Dress rehearsal 1

Hi all! Welcome back at my running blog towards the Spijkenisse Spark Marathon later this month! Now that the taper weeks are closing in I am using this peak week to set a ball park goal pace time.

Today was my first dress rehearsal. Which aimed to focus on maintaining a strong pace while fatigue.

In order to stimulate fatigue above my runningsload I cycle a bit (easy pace) as that is a little easier on the joints.

For today:

• 19 km bike ride (easy pace)
• warming up 5 km running (zone 2)
• tempo block 8 km @ 4:15 / km
• 5 km cooling down
• 18 km bike ride (easy pace)

While most is package, the real training was the 8km at my dream time (would be sub 3 marathon if I can maintain).

Running the warming up, I felt oke-ish not that strong and a little worried about the stomage issues I had early morning. I decided to just give my best as today is one of the most important trainings in my entire block. During the temporun I felt strong, 1 km in I knew I would nail this training. The last few 100m I had energy left for a small end sprint.

This training gave a strong mental boost! If my second (and last) dress rehearsal this Sunday is as successful I will give sub 3h a try at Spijkenisse!

Yesterday, I received the new Shokz Open Run Pro Mini 2 , as my older edition broke down (no sound on one side) customerservice offered me a brand new model as replacement.

This was an amazing free upgrade as the music was even more clear compared to the older edition!

Happy running !