The BMO Vancouver Marathon is officially out for me. I had been training for the full since January with my running partner Ali. Training was going decent and I managed to get a 32k run in early March.
Unfortunately my left foot has been nagging me since I returned from San Francisco. Nothing too serious, but definitely something I’m keeping an eye on. On April 5th when I was planning to run 28k, my foot flared up and I only managed 16k. It was my worst run of the season. This past week I decided to take it easy and only ran 18km yesterday. My foot is feeling better, but my mileage in these critical weeks has suffered. So I’ll not be running the Vancouver full, instead I’ll downgrade to the Half. 21.1km is a lot easier to tackle and will minimize additional injury risk.
I’m going to take a break from full-marathons. I enjoy half-marathons far far more. I’ll run BMO in May and probably Scotia in June. Keeping up a half-marathon running base and working on my speed will be my short-term running goal. Speed-wise I’d like to get more consistent with sub 1:50 half-marathons and possibly push towards 1:45 sometime this year.
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You’ll be back
Portland in the Fall perhaps?
Ha! Portland one year certainly. Not sure if I’m game to ramp-up another marathon training schedule this summer.