I spent the last week going over the marathon in my mind, backtracking on every tactic, kicking myself on how I utterly unprepared I was for the the final 10k of the race.
Having analysed everything in relative detail, I think that my biggest issues were:
- insufficient mileage in general
- more longer runs needed
- fueling and hydration strategy sorely lacking
I don't necessarily want the marathon as an event to become my sole objective, but I would like to tackle it again, and acquit myself better.
After a week of rest, and wound licking, I slipped on an old pair of shoes and headed for the tried and tested today. 15k around the Ile de loisirs in St Quentin en Yvelines, right next door. This is my go-to running spot, and it's a perfect blend of forest trail and stretches of flat tarmac.
Typically it takes around 10k for a standard run, but I eked out the km to see how I would react after the marathon. Everything went surprisingly well. My hamstrings and calves did feel feel a little leaden towards the end, but it was a gentle, steady run overall and it felt fantastic to get back out again.
I recognise I'm falling into the trap of making this a boring review of every time I lace up a pair of runners and run a few km. I hope to make it more interesting, and much more profound, than that.
I'd like to investigate why I run, and by doing so, why running in general has become such a passion for so many people.
One reason, maybe:
"Running, like literature, like arts, helps you to remember and re-experience some of the impossible strangeness of what it means to be who and what we are, of what it is to be human."
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