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20k subscibers! congrats my man!

Thanks for sharing Matt! Its good to see real life gets in the way with everyone and i love how you shrug it off and move on. Good lesson for us all! Looking forward to seeing how you progress through this block! 💥

Excellent week of training Matt,

I injured myself on the bike and that came out of nowhere from doing too much too fast. Hoping your next week feels better!

Thanks Matt for the content 👍 that green VAGA cap is nice!

Great video Matt, just shows even with our best intentions training weeks don’t always go the way you want. I had a couple of bad sessions a few weeks back and you just have to accept that you can’t nail all the sessions and it’s still training banked and moving towards the big goal. I find the use of the turbo interesting to minimise the wear and tear on the body, must look into that. I also find it difficult not to over indulge on food especially when I’m tired.

GET. IN. THE. GYM!!!!!!!!!

I had a very similar week. Coming off my first 150km week, I could only manage 120km including an aborted long run. Feeling better now after a couple of reduced days. Half way through an 18 wk training block for my first marathon.

I did my threshold run on tradmill as well and I had the same problems. My harte rate was higher than I expected, i was sweating like f**k, My mind and body was tired but workout done. 💪 good luck Matt in your preparation. I belive in you. You gonna smash 2:20 in Manchester 🏃‍♂️💪😉

I found when I was marathon training I was almost scared to have a day as then very hard to hard to get a high mileage total for the week. Equally want to try and avoid that feeling of being tired all the week. I tried that Skillrun at a gym once and remember thinking was nowhere good to put my iPad and had no connectivity to likes of Zwift or even your Garmin that the home ones like the MyRun I have do. So maybe not the “best” one for me. Interesting you say slats feel more realistic as apparently Wahoo went for a conventional belt in their new treadmill as they seemed to think the opposite way! TBH not run enough on slated treadmills to offer a view either way. As you say though each treadmill can feel different so best just to crack on as it were.

Hi Matt, great content, thanks for sharing. Really inspiring to see your dedication and discipline 👏 Just wondering, what shoes are you wearing for the threshold/interval and steady sessions?

Hi Matt! I'm curious about your experiment of doing VO2 Max cycling instead of running. Please, keep us informed!

Solid week even if everything didn't go to plan. My friend is a keen cyclist and was very impressed by that Zwift session!

It's tough to get right but us runners occasionally fall between the cracks when getting the training in on a given day and getting the balance into our week. Unless you're full time, it's inevitable. Trying to put my finger on it, it's not that doing a double threshold was a bad idea, or six miles in the dark, it's more there's only so many times you can train late and then again the next morning before the fatigue accumulates. In theory it's a new day but the reality is your body knows the difference between a 2nd session at 6pm and 8pm or even 9pm. Those two extra hours to refuel, wind down etc can make a huge difference. Real world though, only school run club meets at 5pm, 7pm is the average, so you have to know where to be pace your efforts. If that's your weekly routine, I'd drop the double threshold and do a bigger session or longer single run session and recover the rest of that day. Double threshold are in theory, the easy side of hard in order to not wipe you out. If you're too tired to run the next day, the double threshold hasn't worked because it's drained you.

Marathon and training for a marathon its never easy!!!!

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are you pricking your finger to pull blood all the time? does it just instantly heal or are there negative effects? seems like having a lactate tester really takes the guesswork out of knowing your paces though :D

Very interested to see if your Bike VO2 translates! I actually tried something similar on one block, where I picked up a minor injury only 3-2 weeks away from my Goal marathon. It did not upset my injury to bike, so I was SLAMMING VO2 sessions on the bike to see if I could uphold my fitness, which I felt was in a pretty good spot prior to injury. Additionally, I tried to do STANDING, semi-low cadence VO2 to try to more closely mimic the form of running, and keep strength strong. Long story short, the bike did not uphold my running fitness, BUUUUUT, was of course better thatn if I would have gone sedintary for 3 weeks before a marathon. lol

Perhaps the LT1 the day before double threshold was a bridge too far given underlying tiredness?

Just curious what Is your vo2 max Plenty of time to get the longs runs nailed

Sounds like a virus is rife in the household. No wander your feeling lethargic. Other than the late night binge there’s not a lot wrong. Also you’ve not said you’re going to run 2:20 in spring. Surely a good block with something at or around your PB before a series of faster 5/10km race would sets you up well for a pop in Seville/Valencia or somewhere fast later on. Go hard now for sure but not on yourself this early on - it’s week 3!

I feel your pain as someone with a daughter, dogs and shift work including nights. My fatigue can hit me hard when I’m over 45 miles per week. Is there any science around what causes dead legs or what is the best recovery/ nutrition to fix it?

I'm interested in your training zones. I'm using Zone 2 on my watch but that's about 135bpm which is much lower than the 150bpm your running at. I'm hoping I'm not going too slow/easy on my runs 😬

Are u a pro? Or have u a job to work around?

You looked tired through this vid… in the eyes 👀.

More animal protein brings me back when my legs are not there.