{"id":131,"date":"2012-03-09T03:50:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T03:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=131"},"modified":"2012-03-09T03:50:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T03:50:00","slug":"marathon-training-day-60118","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2012\/03\/09\/marathon-training-day-60118\/","title":{"rendered":"Marathon Training: Day 60\/118"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n<\/a>Oof. It’s been a while since I last updated my blog on my marathon training. Guess why? I’ve been so tired from running.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow I will run 21.5 km and I will try and do it in 2 hours. This is just over a half marathon and 3 km more than I ran last Friday (18.5 km in 1:42)and 5 km more than I ran the Friday before that. How will I feel after the run? Hopefully like I felt last Friday: a little exhilerated and very tired. Hopefully not like 2 Fridays ago after running the 16.5 km (1:31): very nauseated and very tired (after this run I chaperoned a high school banquet and wanted to eat a plate covered in 4 pastas and 4 sauces so badly, but I couldn’t because I was so sick). I have found a solution though (I think) – it’s below.<\/p>\n

After speaking with my sister Salom\u00e9 on the phone about that bad run, she gave me some rather vital info. Since I’m running on a treadmill, I should be running with an elevation level of 2.0 since it’s so much easier than running on the road (which I can’t do because of all the ice and snow). She also advised me to do “toe taps,” 80 of them each day to strengthen my shins (which have been aching quite a bit).<\/p>\n

So the reason I got sick during the 16.5 km, I presume, is the loss of electrolytes. To resolve the issue, I looked up some recipes so I don’t have to drink Gatorade. A squeeze of lemon, a pinch of potassium chloride (weird salt), a pinch of kosher salt (sodium chloride), a teaspoon of honey and lots of water. If I sip this every 10 minutes, it keeps the nausea at bay and really keeps me alert. I still follow long runs with some blended berries mixed with whey powder and water to energize.<\/p>\n

Sadly, I missed my first 2 days of training. Not because I couldn’t do it, but because I willfully chose not to. I missed a 5.5 km run and 60 minutes of cross-training\/weight training. I’ve made up 1 of those kms already, but then a couple days ago I quit a 12 km “quality” run 1 km early at 11 km. This quality run I did on Tuesday was a Yasso 800: “six 800 m ‘sprints’ with 400m recovery jogs.” My sprints were between 13.2-5 km\/hr and I was just ill afterwards. So ill that I don’t recall drinking my electrolyte drink – maybe I should have…<\/p>\n

I’ve begun to compile a list of supplies I will need for the marathon on May 6:<\/p>\n