Road/trail runnning (Marathon Pace tempo) 1:34:48 [4] 22.55 km (4:12 / km) +46m 4:10 / km
Home to Thames Path / Bushy Park and back. Probably the most important training session of the whole 18-week programme, the longest Marathon Pace run - 4-mile warm up then 14 miles at MP. Very pleased with how well it went - marathon pace felt pretty comfortable throughout, certainly felt like much less of a hard tempo effort than it used to and just felt like a normal sustainable pace once I got into it. Getting towards the stage where I feel I could hold this pace for at least most of the required time, given another month's training and a proper taper going into the race. The pacing went well, held a steady 4:11-4:12/km on the watch for most of it, and went through 21.1km in 88:45, pretty much bang on my race-day first half target of 89 mins. Good stuff.