{"id":296,"date":"2015-04-27T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rungigettorun.com\/?p=296"},"modified":"2015-04-27T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T10:14:00","slug":"am-i-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luigifumero.com\/run\/2015\/04\/27\/am-i-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Am I ready?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday I rested and I really needed it.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday I went for a short 13k run that was intended to be slow, but I did a couple of sprints and some fast kms here and there, so I will call it a <a href=\"https:\/\/app.strava.com\/activities\/289516589\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fartlek training session<\/a>. It was fun, but I should not have done it as my right hamstrings felt a bit too fatigued at the end.<\/p>\n<p>That did not stop me doing some repeats on Wednesday. I did the usual warm up and then <a href=\"https:\/\/app.strava.com\/activities\/290217415\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">six by 600mt at 3:50<\/a> with 1&#8217;50&#8221; rest. Then finished with a 3k cool down. I really struggled to go fast. The legs were too tired and wooden. I tried the Fenix3 feature where you create a workout on the PC with all the crazy details you want and then upload it on the watch. It&#8217;s very well done but I guess it is made for people running on a track as it does not store GPS data from the run. That is not good for me. I like seeing a map at the end of my training. I&#8217;ll check to see if I did get some options wrong.<\/p>\n<p>I was so tired that on Thursday I did <a href=\"https:\/\/app.strava.com\/activities\/290858536\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">15k at 5:01 min\/km<\/a>. Nice recovery run. I did speed up a bit at the end but that&#8217;s just me being silly.<\/p>\n<p>Friday I decided to rest as I wanted to be fresh to tackle my longest run ever.<\/p>\n<p>The plan on Saturday was to run 50k and use it as a final test before the NDW50. I wanted to run it as if it was only the first part of the 50 miles race I&#8217;ll attempt in May. I left home very early equipped with all the mandatory kit for the NDW plus 5 gels, 6 shots and, for the first time, some salt sticks. I wanted to see if drinking pure water with no salts was going to make it easier to eat and keep down the gels so I was going to get the salts from the pills this time. It worked out pretty well. I have to stop to take the pills but that&#8217;s fine.<\/p>\n<p>I kept running at a steady easy pace around 5:30 min\/km and regularly ate every 30 minutes either the gels or the shots, alternating them. Every hour and a half or so I ate a salt stick. Everything went smoothly. I never had any moment of crisis or cramps (in the belly or legs). After 43k the legs started feeling a bit heavy but I guess that was also psychological as I was running towards unknown territories. I am sure that the hills of the NDW will make the legs feel totally different from the monotony of running on flat for hours. I am confident also that aid stations and meeting people will make time go by\u00a0easier (the 2k I did with a guy preparing for a 100k in the Pyrenees went very fast for example).<\/p>\n<p>I got home after exactly <a href=\"https:\/\/app.strava.com\/activities\/292090687\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">50k in 4 hours and 40 minutes<\/a>. I had a massive grin on my face. I was happy. Happy for achieving something six months ago I thought impossible. Happy for seeing\u00a0that the hard work paid off and happy because I felt tired but not spent. I feel I can run more than 50k and at a pace I am happy with. I also did it with very tired legs while I plan to taper nicely in the next three weeks and arrive on\u00a0race day charged like a bomb. I cannot wait for the NDW50 and even more I cannot wait to run it with my friends coming from all over Europe.<\/p>\n<p>So, another solid week. I ran a total of <strong>90k<\/strong> but most importantly I have beaten my distance record.<\/p>\n<p>Have fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday I rested and I really needed it. On Tuesday I went for a short 13k run that was intended to be slow, but I did a couple of sprints and some fast kms here and there, so I will call it a fartlek training session. It was fun, but I should not have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38,65],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-long","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luigifumero.com\/run\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luigifumero.com\/run\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luigifumero.com\/run\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luigifumero.com\/run\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luigifumero.com\/run\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/luigifumero.com\/run\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luigifumero.com\/run\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luigifumero.com\/run\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luigifumero.com\/run\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}