Half Marathon in just over a month, couple of questions

[Buckster]

glad I'm not the only one that suffers on morning runs too ...

I find it hard in particular to judge hydration, as too much in the morning and I'll be busting half way round a 20k .. same with coffee - could do with one in the morning before a run to get me awake

my half marathon is in about 5 weeks time too - which one you going for ?

how many K a week are you running ? I'm doing about 40k a week - 2 club runs (one effort, one off-road), and 1-2 runs on my own or with a friend.

getting in anymore than that I struggle with as my legs take a good day to recover - or should you just run on "dead/tired" legs ? the day after ?

 

[craarc]

What the hell does that mean?

op said I find running SO much easier in the evening which is infuriating as the run is at 9:30AM.

so as with most people if they find it easier to run at 4pm- 7 pm time but his rune is at 930 am

he needs to make changes thats all.

get his body used to running at 930 so it performs better at that time

change your sleeping waking and training patterns an so on .. or he is always going to have that problem is what i meant

 

[Begbie]

Take some jelly babies on a run with you. WHY? Because they taste great

No really though, they help massively. Your time will be lower during the run too.

 

[firstborn]

op said I find running SO much easier in the evening which is infuriating as the run is at 9:30AM.

so as with most people if they find it easier to run at 4pm- 7 pm time but his rune is at 930 am

he needs to make changes thats all.

get his body used to running at 930 so it performs better at that time

change your sleeping waking and training patterns an so on .. or he is always going to have that problem is what i meant

But it's not really problem that requires a rather over the top change in lifestyle...

Training AM; get up throw clothes on and go for a run feeling miserable. This is generally how it is for people with work/family/life who don't like running in the morning and want to retain a balanced lifestyle. If you have nothing else to do but train and compete then that's a different issue.

Race AM; Get up 3+ hours before the race, eat, drink, poo, make your way to the race, pick up the atmosphere as people gather, talk to randoms, bit of a warm up, adrenalin builds, race.... by the time you set off it may as well be the evening. If you still feel like you've just got out of bed after that then there are bigger issues.

 

[ricky1981]

But it's not really problem that requires a rather over the top change in lifestyle...

Training AM; get up throw clothes on and go for a run feeling miserable. This is generally how it is for people with work/family/life who don't like running in the morning and want to retain a balanced lifestyle. If you have nothing else to do but train and compete then that's a different issue.

Race AM; Get up 3+ hours before the race, eat, drink, poo, make your way to the race, pick up the atmosphere as people gather, talk to randoms, bit of a warm up, adrenalin builds, race.... by the time you set off it may as well be the evening. If you still feel like you've just got out of bed after that then there are bigger issues.

Couldn't put it better, I did all my training in the late afternoon or early evening for my first half marathon and had no problem doing the run itself at 9am as there was a great buzz. I was only running for fun but you still find yourself getting nervous (in a good way) and I ran a pretty good time (for me).

Just enjoy it, as long as you've done some decent training you should have a great time, it's not actually that far and whilst I took on a small amount of water I didn't need to eat anything on the way around. My GP used to do triathlons and at 50 still does half marathons just for fun, in his words "they are something anyone can do with a bit of preparation, your body won't argue too much".

I've signed up for two more in the coming months, we're very lucky over here as there are runs in some stunning parts of the country and being into running doesn't seem to have quite the same "weirdo" stigma that it had when we were in the UK (this may also have been linked to where we lived).