Weekly Running Review - 10 weeks till Snetterton Track Half Marathon

Now I'm training for my next half marathon, I did this race, Snetterton track, last year for my first ever half marathon and had an amazing run, managing a time much better than I had anticipated at 2 hours 7 mins 39 seconds. I wasn't going to do it again but my 17 year old son wanted to do it for his first half marathon so I said I'd do it with him. Although his training is not going well! He definitely prefers shorter distances, he's not very good at committing himself to the training.

I've managed a few runs this week here are the stats from them.

I did this run on Tuesday so 2 days after The Great North Run. This wasn't a bad run considering i'd ran 13.1 miles on the Sunday.

This was my parkrun on Saturday, it's not a bad run but I was disappointed as I thought I was running at my best, it killed me and it was still over a minute slower than my pb.

This run was a run home from parkrun. The plan I'm trying to follow has me doing a 12km run this week so I made it up with the 2 runs today.

Todays run was my worst to date, I ended up walking, it was awful. I feel like I'm getting worse at running, not better and I don't feel any better, I hurt all the time, my legs feel heavy and tired all the time, my muscles hurt and my toe nails really hurt. I think if I didn't have races booked I could easily give up running. I don't want to give up but it really doesn't seem worth it. I'm miserable when I run and I'm even more miserable when I don't. I just want to be a better runner and feel better.

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