{"id":5251,"date":"2017-05-13T20:26:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T18:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/?p=5251"},"modified":"2017-11-11T19:36:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T17:36:36","slug":"diacore-gaborone-marathon-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/diacore-gaborone-marathon-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Diacore Gaborone Marathon 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I ran my second Diacore Gaborone Marathon, two years after the first.  I was worried that I hadn’t done enough long runs during training to perform well, compared to how I remembered training before my first attempt, but I managed to knock 9 minutes off.<\/p>\n

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Prisca and me after finishing our 10km and 42.2km runs respectively.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, for the benefit of anybody who is thinking about running further and outside their comfort zone here are a few notes on my preparation and anecdotal evidence on how to survive.<\/p>\n

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The Preparation<\/h3>\n

When I look back in my training records for the two months before the event in March 2015 I can see that in December I ran 56km, January 125km, and 192km in February.  Most of these runs were <10km interval\/fartlek sessions as guided by a Garmin 16 week training plan<\/a> (I only used the last 8 weeks because I was already comfortable at the 21km distance.  Weekends had me doing longer runs up to about 30km.  There is a conspicuous absence of cycling and rowing as well.<\/p>\n