It seems like I’ve talked quit a bit lately about the various mind games I’ve battle this summer. I feel like it’s so easy to get fixated on something and then I can’t shake it.
As I enter the crucial homestretch this month, I actually am feeling more at ease about things. That said, though, I’m suddenly paranoid as hell this week about the final two really big runs.
Am I running enough?
Is my long run too high of a percentage of my weekly mileage?
Am I really doing a Google “long run percentage of weekly mileage” search?
Yes, I did.
It turns out that I’m completely normal in my way of thinking; there are no clear-cut answers with that.
Duh. I knew that.
I also knew that mileage for marathon training typically varies from 30 miles to 150 miles a week. Why the paranoia? Why am I even questioning this?
Well, it was a 20-mile long run last year when disaster hit. I haven’t forgot that. To settle my mind a bit, I added my mileage since “official” training began and my long run mileage – to date I’ve ran 325.7 miles since June 20; 125.7 of those are long run miles; that’s 38.5 percent of my miles.
Assuming I get through the rest of this week as planned, that percentage changes to 42 percent. That percentage would then go down next week with a shorter long run planned.
Based on my research of other people’s research, I’m just going to keep doing my thing and not worry about it anymore. Just like everything else with running, different things work for different people – that’s the No. 1 advice I give to people.
Why I continue to drift off and fret about things is something I need to stop doing. Saturday morning can’t come soon enough for what to me is the most important run of my training for the Baltimore Marathon. 20 miles.
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