Venue: Inawa Sports Park
Temperature: 14.1℃~15.4℃
Marathon pace run: 25:00.00
Surge 1: 1:00.00
Marathon pace run: 8:00.00
Surge 2: 2:00.00
Marathon pace run: 2:00.00
Surge 3: 3:00.00
Marathon pace run: 5:00.00
Surge 4: 2:00.00
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
Food (banana) break @ Lawson's: 11:00.00
Warm down: 5:00.49
Total 18 K: 1:43:49
I went to Iwana Sports Park today to test-run the first 17 K of the course I'm running this weekend in Sakura Asahi Kenko Marathon 2018. I mixed in surges of varied lengths at regular intervals to build my fatigue resistance.
I am so glad I ran the course today, because I was able to check the road condition. In much of the course the surface was very rough. The sole of one of my aqua shoes, which had resisted the shock and friction throughout the entire 42.195 K at the Tateyama Wakashio Marathon this past January, got a hole! I also got two blisters in my right sole. That didn't happen when I did similar training last week for a much longer distance in Tesla's Baretrek. I have an extra pair of aqua shoes, and I can use them at the race this coming week. I don't know if the same can happen there as well. I hope it won't. And I have reason to believe it won't. First, I won't run as fast in the race as I did in the training. And when I ran at my race pace in Tateyama, the sole didn't get damaged. Also, the sole probably was slready pretty worn out as a result of past frequent use. But the new pair is, as you see, brand-new and least worn-out. So I may run in Baretrek if the blisters don't heal, which is still a pretty good option for a minimalist (though a bit too protective for a man who respects Abebe Bikila), but I will mostly likely run in aqua shoes if the blisters present no problem.
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