I am struggling with this question: Should I wait another year to try and run a good marathon and see if I can get my 10k times back down to a sub 40, or should I train to run a marathon thinking that the result may not be a great time? But, if I don't do one soon, and if I get injured again I am afraid I may just get frustrated and never run one ever.
I am currently running around 55 to 60k/week over 6 days. 2 Quality work outs / week. For the last 2 months a long run of 16 to 20k/week. Now my long runs are 23k. I also bike with the family about once a week for a couple of hours. I feel good, other then the extra 15 pounds that I have been carrying since my best weight.
I have run two 10k races. One in Whitby and placed 3rd overall (hehehehe sounds good) my time was only 41:23, still not too bad considering. Another in Waterloo, with a not so good time of 43:26. It was warm and humid and mentally challenging to finish the last half. I was hoping to have the first time around 20 minutes, but it was over 21, from then on it was really difficult to keep going.
The day before the race Ken took a video of my stride. It looks like I am still overstriding:
After that race, I realized that I want to run well and I better start concentrating on eating and training properly. I have to admit that I had a few too many coolers the week before.
I have mostly been doing easy runs, strides and some ABC's. I did a T-Pace of 15 minutes on a rubberized track. Thanks to Jessie from the Whitby Tigers running club for letting me know about the track.
If I use my VDOT from my best resent race, it comes out to be 50. My T-pace should be about 1:42/400m. I was running a little faster per lap, in the range of 1:38 to 1:41. The breathing was a little heavy and it was difficult to keep my form. This Thursday I will work on running slower for my tempo run.
I hope to keep the postings coming, not just about my running and training, but add a little twist about running in Ontario. Write about some of the best places where I have run for training and races. Also places where I would like to run races.
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I would say you do not overstride at all. You have a very mechanically sound stride, with your footplant right under your hips. Consider yourself lucky! I've had to work for years to wean myself off of hard-striking heel first running. I'm finally just getting things together in the last year.
Good to see you're still around, and it sounds like the running is going well.
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