Amsterdam Marathon Oct 10

[ladyrunner]

Hi Dan

I'm probably doing more miles now but am mainly only race walking for training. I'm training 4 or 5 times a week, but every time I train I am running for 13-15 minutes as a warm up then walking for the rest of the session.

For Amsterdam Marathon I only did two long training walk/runs. 3 weeks before I did 30k (15k walking followed by 15k running) and 2 weeks before I did 25k (15k walking/12k running).

My calves have been good since I started the walking back in August and my hip and back stiffness has almost disappeared too. I'm starting to feel like a young woman again and no longer feel like a crippled old woman LOL .

And I'm getting fitter and faster too. I started off by walking the Parkrun 5k in 30 minutes and now I am down to 26:36, which is only 4 minutes slower than I was running back in June/July.

Hoping to try running a cross country at the end of November to see how my speed running fitness is and to see how I fair against a few of my local rivals.

Julie