Today I did my longest run to date in this training for my April marathon. With 5 weeks to go I had to do 18 miles today to allow myself time to do a couple more long runs before the taper.

I was a bit apprehensive as to how I would get on as my legs had been stiff and hamstrings tight for most of the week after the half marathon last Sunday. I had also discovered that the calibration on my Garmin Forerunner 50 watch was a bit out (that’s for another post!).

The last 15 miler I did had been two loops of the same route so this time I opted to combine three of my shorter runs to give me the required 18 miles. This worked really well as I passed my house at the end of each and only covered a very short distance more than once. Also psychologically it was good as I segmented the run into 3 in my head and concentrated only on that one segment at a time.

Legs definitely feel like I’ve done something but having done this and not died has given me confidence that, with a couple more long runs under my belt, I should manage 26.2 in 5 weeks time.

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