It's half time! 7 weeks of training are now behind me. And 7 weeks of training ahead of me. But there are more to go before the competition, as I have another training break planned. I look back on the last 7 weeks and especially on the last one with a laughing and a crying eye.
I ran my longest run ever this week. It was more than the 21.1km. And I coped with it better than I would have thought. I had prepared myself to run out of energy or to be completely exhausted at the end. But it was not like that. I coped much better with this run. The laughing eye. The crying eye refers to the time I ran. It was also my first half marathon test. And I was very shocked about the time. It was much worse than I would have thought. And above all, it was very far from the time I had set myself as my goal. Until now I always thought I was on the right track, because my training is going well and I can see that I am improving. I was all the more shocked when I saw that it might not be like that after all. Since I did this run first on Monday, I had the rest of the week to rack my brains over all this. Yes, a half marathon is also a mental effort. Because it's not about the distance, but about how. And that (unfortunately) includes thoughts like these. My training plan is based on the one that helped me three years ago. Back then, it led me to the finish line. So I assumed that it would be the same this time. But now I wonder if I was wrong.
My other runs this week were as usual. The interval training was even unusually good. I changed it three weeks ago because I wasn't sure if it still made sense. Now I was also questioning the new variation. But then it went so well. So this week was a complete up and down and I admit that I briefly questioned the whole plan. But in the end, this question is not even on the table. It's only a question of how.
I now have another 7 weeks ahead of me. Enough time to get even better. Either with the already planned plan or with a completely new one. But how do I know that this one would work? Or would I ruin everything again?
seem to be more at a loss now than I was at the beginning. Am I on the right track? Will I manage to reach my goal in the next few days? Is my goal perhaps simply set too high? Did I overestimate myself? Was I too megalomaniac? Or should I just continue to trust in myself, my body and the plan that has helped me before? Or should I set myself a new goal?