Julie and I tried to do the 15 miles, with the last three at marathon pace. We didn't do walk breaks, either. I was totally exhausted the rest of the day!
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From Sasha Pachev on Tue, May 06, 2008 at 16:40:12
No wonder you were exhausted. You essentially ran an ultra-marathon. This run comprised almost half of your mileage for the week. When you do that, your experience approaches that of a higher mileage runner doing an ultra.
What I would recommend - run 6 days a week, Mon-Fri go 6-7 miles, on Saturday go 10. Easy pace. Make sure you are always recovered by the next day.
Do not do long runs that are 15 miles and longer until you are consistently out 6 days a week. Two reasons: physiological - when you are consistent you get something out of a long run, otherwise it becomes a beat-up/recover barely to the level you started at/beat-up again cycle - you are running an ultra every weekend; mental - most runners think they need to do long runs to run a marathon, so if they do them, they erroneously think they are ready. But not allowing yourself to run long on a weekend if you did not train right the rest of the week you place a lock on the door to a misleading shortcut. Which hopefully would result in helping you take the proper route.
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