Sheesh, it's been months since I wrote last. I'm trying to remember exactly where I left off. My previous post was " How Not to Train for a 50k ". And, shockingly, I did not do a 50k last year. I didn't even do the 25k, but I did do the 10 mile version of McDowell Mountain Frenzy. It started out kind of rough, but I pushed through long enough to finish. I kind of enjoyed it. Not long after, I started working with a functional medicine doctor to try and determine what exactly I was dealing with health-wise. I took the entire month of December off from running because I wasn't sure what my body really needed to heal and/or lose a few pounds. That is the cliffnotes version to get us to today. I have worms . Ugh. I actually have a bunch of other stuff wrong with me. My gut is a mess, my microbiome is all out of whack, and there's all sorts of bacterial presence in my system. My thyroid doesn't work like it's supposed to, but
I've been spending a lot of time obsessing over the numbers these past few days: the numbers associated with my 50k training, or lack thereof. I'm trying to decide if I should just push through and DO IT, despite my lack of training, or if I should drop to the 25k distance on race day and do a race that's a little bit more "my speed". (If anyone reading this has advice either way, I would love to hear it!!!) A little bit about my plan If you've trained for a marathon before, or looked into it, you probably came across one or more Hal Higdon training plans, among others. For the 4 marathons I've done, I used his "Novice Supreme" training plan, available here . It's free and available on the internet, pretty much my requirements for a training plan. When it came to 50k training, I had some trouble finding a plan that was - what I considered to be - my level. Lots of them include strength training, or hill repeats, or timed runs, or w