The Running Marketer

Today was my first day of marathon training. I have 15 weeks and 6 days to learn to run 42.2km in one stint. That’s equal to running from Mitcham station in Melbourne, to the Melbourne town hall and back again. It’s a long way.

So, how did I start?

Breakfast

I’m boosting what I eat because I’ll need the energy so I started with a better breakfast. The overnight oats had blueberries and cranberries added. Some peanut-free trail mix sprinkled over and some sliced banana added. I was so full I barely ate lunch.

Over breakfast, I chatted with Bec about race nutrition plans and wondered if I had the same gel she tested this morning. I do, but probably also won’t like the taste.

A pedicure

The next important training things was a pedicure. It’s important to look after my feet… and green polish helps. You’re getting a photo of my manicure because I’ve put a pedicure photo on instagram before and I don’t want to deal with those fetish creeps again.

A nap

Rest is important. Maybe after a run is more typical. I did it before. There’s no photo of my nap.

A run

Yes, I did actually run on my 1st training day. The rehab run plan directed a 30 minute easy run. That’s about 4.3km for me. My Garmin watch’s training suggestion was a 54 minute base run. So I split the difference and ran 5k in 34 minutes.

Yesterday someone set a local mattress store on fire. It’s on my go-to route and made a convenient rest stop.

Recovery

After the run, I returned to my home base on the couch with an ice pack. I never thought I’d had ice packs on rotation but it’ll keep happening until I can totally heal my leg.

Ok, that’s one day down and 110 to go. Eeek, ONLY 110 to go.