Aches and Pains

Ok, so first up those of you looking for the Reading race report please see below. A report from Blackpool will be up some time next week I hope.

I've managed a fair amount of training this week but my legs are very tired and today I actually had to stop running while out even though it was nice and sunny out. I didn’t hit the wall really but I just had no energy. I had felt like going running was a bad idea as I went to get changed but decided to try anyway. I didn’t get very far. The same thing happened in the pool last night, I just ran out of energy. I don’t know if I have just done too much in these last few weeks or if I am not eating enough (or maybe both) but my legs feel a bit like lead and with the Blackpool marathon coming up I’m wondering if I should just cut right back and rest for a couple of days, carbo-load and see how things go. I’ve also got blisters on the end of a couple of toes that could do with healing up before Sunday.

Blackpool is supposed to be a fast course so it would be nice to be able to perform to the best of my abilities. On the other hand I do want to keep exercising and losing weight so I’m not sure? You are supposed to taper for a marathon anyway and I can’t keep being so low on energy in the week as my training is starting to suffer a bit so I’m not sure what to do. Also, I can’t go running tomorrow anyway as I have a lunchtime meeting and then I’m heading over to Blackpool via Manchester in the evening. I would usually always have the Saturday before a big race like this as a rest day but now I’m thinking maybe I should do a quick run then to make up for today. I don’t know. I’ll have to rethink training from now on I think so I can be more effective over the whole week. Any comments?