Rotterdam Countdown - 11 weeks to go

Starting to feel stronger

• A good week’s training done (51 miles) and feeling good
• 6 week rolling-average weekly-mileage now standing at 47
• Another good marathon HR-effort (10 miles), generating an encouraging average pace of 6:29
• 16.5 mile run on the Sunday, easing down a little ready for another 20+ effort next weekend.  Happy with 7:08 pace for this, given low average HR and awful weather!
• Promising 5k-pace workout (2.5s/mile quicker than same session on 3rd Dec)  

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The graph to to the left shows a comparison of my 2010 preparation vs 2014 (to-date and planned).  Due to illness (and perhaps doing too many 20-mile+ runs too soon) mileage peaked around 9 weeks before the race rather than 3 in 2010.  Hopefully (as projected in the graph) this time will see me peaking at the right time with a higher mileage.