Marathoners: Fatigue is Your Friend
As a few friends and I "reach our peak" training weeks for our October marathons, we are finding ourselves unusually fatigued. However, it is normal and expected. Training should feel hard and you should feel tired. Sure there might be a day here and there you are feeling great, but there will be plenty of days when you are feeling tired, fatigued and barely plodding through an 11 minute mile. Those days are tough but necessary. Last week, I cranked out a 45 mile week, w