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Back to Journal  « Submission 259 | Marathon Training Week 10 of 26: Fuel | Guest Blogging at Toby's House » Marathon Training Week 10 of 26: Fuel February 20, 2006 My first "maintenance run." So last week I did 12 miles on my long run and next week I'll do 14. This week the aim was only six. I had some real motivation problems yesterday, which, combined with lack of sleep and a pressing concern that kept me from staying focused, helped me to give my worst performance of these ten weeks. Just glad it hit today rather than a week where I needed to make progress. We'll see by next Sunday how or whether a poor performance on my pseudo-long run will affect my "real" long run. Weekday maintenance runs are going all right, but maybe that's because I took an extra day or two to heal from last Sunday's twelve mile. Since this was a boring week with not much to talk about, might as well cover something tangential. I've now tried a good dozen energy bars and half a dozen gels, and this is what I've learned so far: Most energy bars taste like chalk, and I'm pretty forgiving of any food substance when I'm as hungry as I get on these Sunday runs. But the only one that I've found tolerable so far is the Balance Bar Gold "Caramel Nut Blast." Otherwise, give me a plain old granola bar. Covering it in crappy chocolate is only an improvement if you want to encourage more water consumption; I need to wash the taste out of my mouths pronto. But I gotta eat something in those two and a half hours of the long runs. Most gels taste like paste. But so far both flavors of Hammer Gel I've tried (Vanilla and Chocolate) are okay, as is GU's "Orange Burst," though I haven't liked other GU flavors. But they work. I feel a noticeable relief in my fatigue (note I didn't say improvement in my energy) when I use a gel halfway through my run. On my 12 mile I used two. Next Sunday I plow through a half marathon. Where does the time go? |
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