If you will remember from my last marathon Monday post, I struggled with some hip/upper leg pain during my last long run. I was sure it was bursitis based on everything I had read, but now I am not so sure. I am thinking it may just be something with the IT band and the quads - I have been using the stick and stretching and it seems to be helping - hooray! Week 11 of my 18 week training plan is complete.
Tuesday: 4 miles
Wednesday: 2 miles
Thursday: 2.25 miles (plus I swam for 25 minutes)
Saturday: 16 miles
Sunday: 5 mile race (recap tomorrow!)
Total for the week: 29.25 miles
I deviated from the schedule some this week, I should have had two 4 mile runs and my long run was supposed to be on Thursday. I decided to switch my long run back to Saturday after the hip issue last weekend - I wanted to give myself a bit more time to heal, plus I can only get two hours of childcare during the week so I wasn't sure what to do with Daniel. And then a stomach cramp mid run Wednesday kept me from completing 4 miles. But, overall I got the miles in. So, its a success!
Besides the hip pain last week, the 16 mile run was glorious. This weeks long run was miserable to say the least. I had to stop at the bathroom only 4.5 miles in, by 6-7 miles in I was dragging, I had nothing left in the tank to keep my body moving. So, I tried to take fuel and that caused more stomach issues. By mile 9.5 I was struggling with being light headed. I pushed on though, trying to balance getting enough fuel to keep conscious while minimizing the stomach issues. Then, the actual stomach cramps started at around mile 13. By mile 14 I was walking, I ended up walking most of those last 2 miles. But I finished and on a day where my body was so adamant it didn't want to do the miles, that is a big fat WIN. Just for fun, lets check out the splits shall we?
Mile 1: 10:01
Mile 2: 9:49
Mile 3: 9:44
Mile 4: 9:51
Mile 5: 9:52
Mile 6: 9:53
Mile 7: 9:42
Mile 8: 10:11
Mile 9: 9:52
Mile 10: 9:42
Mile 11: 9:48
Mile 12: 10:56 (this is where the struggling really started)
Mile 13: 11:42
Mile 14: 11:32
Mile 15: 14:47
Mile 16: 13:14
Anyone else have as many stomach problems as I do? It seems like even WATER causes problems anymore. I have NO CLUE how I am going to run a marathon in 6-7 weeks if I can't get this figured out! :( Any suggestions? I have tried sports drinks, gummys, jelly beans, gu, chomps, and powerbar energy blasts. I used chocolate #9 with some success, but I can't buy that locally and honestly it still caused problems. HELP!
Sorry you had so many issues on your long run but at least you pushed through and finished it.
ReplyDeleteI wish I had some great advice but I really can't think of much. It might be worth it to look into glycogen depletion running (look for Miss Zippy? blog). Also, and I plan to do this on Saturday, I read to eat a dinner-sized lunch and a lunch-sized dinner before big runs so everything can digest. I guess I can think of things because this just came to me: also watch fiber. I ate two apples on the drive down to Indy for the women's half, and I contribute that to my issues.
ReplyDeleteBest of luck! You have the mental and physical strength to do this. You'll get it.