Marathon Pace Run: 24:00.00
Surge 1: 1:00.00
Marathon Pace Run: 5:00.00
Surge 2: 2:00.00
Marathon Pace Run: 5:00.00
Surge 3: 4:00.00
Marathon Pace Run: 5:00.00
Surge 4: 1:00.00
Marathon Pace Run: 5:00.00
Surge 5: 2:00.00
Marathon Pace Run: 5:00.00
Surge 6: 4:00.00
Marathon Pace Run: 5:00.00
Surge 7: 1:00.00
Marathon Pace Run: 5:00.00
Surge 8: 2:00.00
Marathon Pace Run: 5:00.00
Surge 9: 4:00.00
Marathon Pace Run: 5:00.00
Surge 10: 1:00.00
Marathon Pace Run: 5:00.00
Surge 11: 2:00.00
Marathon Pace Run: 5:00.00
Surge 12: 4:00.00
Marathon Pace Run: 5:00.00
Surge 13: 1:00.00
Marathon Pace Run: 5:00.00
Surge 14: 2:00.00
Marathon Pace Run: 5:00.00
Surge 15: 4:00.00
Marathon Pace Run: 5:00.00
Surge 16: 1:00.00
Marathon Pace Run: 5:00.00
Surge 17: 2:00.00
Marathon Pace Run: 5:00.00
Surge 18: 4:00.00
Marathon Pace Run: 5:00.00
Surge 19: 1:00.00
Marathon Pace Run: 5:00.00
Surge 20: 2:00.00
Marathon Pace Run: 5:00.00
Surge 21: 4:00.00
Warm Down: 2:00.00
Total 3:00:00 with 21 Surges
Two weeks to go before Sakura Asahi Kenko Marathon 2018 I ran part of the course. I left home around 1:00 p.m. and headed for the Inbanuma Pond. From Yukarigaoka on I did fast runs of varied lengths (1 minute, 2 minutes, and 4 minutes) at a regular interval of 5 minutes. Once I hit the cycling road around the pond 8.8 K from home, I ran along it. Soon I came to the 26.5 K mark of the race course, and from that point on, I just ran along it till the finish area. Along the way I came across a large group of volunteers picking litters along the course. Some of them threw words of encouragement at me, assuming that I was running the race. I was thankful to them for their behind-the-scene effort to make the event success. At the finish area I rested for a while, stretching my legs and so on. There were some people at the stadium all wearing the same blue coat. One of them talked to me in a friendly tone. He asked me how far I ran. I wasn't going for mileage, so I wasn't sure, so I told him I was just aiming to run for three hours, and that I had run a little less than three hours. He was a city government worker who was responsible for making the very first Sakura Marathon take place. Once he knew that I was running the race, he asked me a series of questions about aid stations, such as drink preferences and how helpful various foods at aid stations were, and so on. He shared very interesting stories from the past, like the course had changed a few times before they finally settled for the present course. The original course went all the way to the Kobayashi Farm in Inzai City. The local police department was involved to control the traffic, and it was a lot of work for them. They didn't like it, asking Sakura City to manage the race within their their jurisdition. I was like, "Wow, I didn't know that..."
He thanked me for my input, saying, "Sorry to keep talking for so long. I don't want you to catch a cold. I should let you go." I thanked him for sharing interesting episodes, and took off. I ran from the Iwana Sport Park to Keisei Sakura Station. There is a very long hill between them. Going over it was tremendously hard work for the tired two legs. But I mixed in two surges, one being for one-minute, and the other for two minutes with a 5-minute marathon pace run between them. I wanted to finish up my training with one more surge for 4 minutes, but I just reached the station, so I took a train home. After a 15-minute ride I got to Shizu Station, where I got off the train, and started running back home. Within 300 meters from home, I reached the community park where earlier today a local cherry blossom festival was going on. By the time I was back there, all vendors had left, and locals were leaving, with only sporadic groups of people still sitting on the ground or mocking around with one another. I jogged across the park all the way home. But then at the last minute I changed my mind, and ran fast another four minutes around the park, making the total number of surges 21 instead of 20.
All in all, my training today was a longer version of the session a week before. I ran an hour longer, and there were 9 more surges. My main purpose of this type of training is to build my lactic acid tolerance, the ability to sustain good performance even under the influence of building lactic acid. The influence of lactic acid on my performance was getting larger and larger especially after two hours, because I had never done this type of training after running two hours. But that was the whole purpose. I wanted to go beyond my limit. And I feel I achieved my daily goal.
I will probably not going to run a distance longer than what I ran today. There are only two opportunities left for me to do decent training: this coming Thursday and next Sunday. I have a few things in mind that I want to do. I will have some inner talk with myself and decide what's best for me.
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