I thought about some of you guys earlier. Managed half an hour on one earlier, and thoroughly ready to finish when the time came.
Just adding in some consideration, make sure that you condition your ankles before you run a similar distance outside - I’ve fallen foul of that a few times!
Great effort @joex
Great effort, if you are doing 1:50 on a treadmill, pretty sure you would be close to 1:40 in an actual race
1.20 with the magic shoes 
Sweet! 
Thanks guys.
Marathon in 12 days but not ran for 11 days (something in my back has gone).
Got on my turbo trainer tonight and will try a run tomorrow evening and see how it goes.
Will see how I get on over the next week and might still do the race but take it easy and target an April marathon.
Oof. Good hunting 
I had intervals today. Shitty day of work - entire house of cards may be falling down. Forgot it was pancake day and ran to the gym anyway to get my intervals in before eating.
Holy…crap…they…were…hard.
‘Only’ 4:17/km 6x800, I honestly wondered if I was going to have a seizure and die. On the first interval. And the second. And so on. You can only laugh…but I refused to drop the pace, I took longer than 90s breaks, but I did 4:17/km for every interval.
Maybe I’m dreaming but none of the interval sessions have been truly hard, solid yes, but not like this. I’m nine weeks in, I wanted to bail after 200 treadmill metres.
So obviously I went to Hydro class immediately after…T1 2 mins …and beat whatever joi de vivre was left in me out in a lane full of women who clearly expected more of me.
Isn’t pancake day on the 25th?!
Wife said yesterday…but you’re right! 
Oh well. Win win. Double pancake day!
If it’s any help mate, in 2017 I did the Tenby LCW marathon not having ran a step in the previous 3 weeks due to hip injury. I got through it by keeping the pace low.
It’s amazing what you can do on the day but there are other marathons and don’t bugger yourself up.
4:17k pace is about 3:01 marathon pace, so just keep them up without the recoveries!
Thanks @FatPom and I really want to do it even if it to just put a marker down as i have not done a standalone marathon yet.
Think my focus will be Blackpool mara in April now.
Sounds similar to me, but just with a half. I’ve not been able to run really since Malaga in December. Monday evening was the first time I’ve run double digit km’s since then, and that’s only off the back of about 10 days of returning to running. I have the Big Half a week on Sunday.
I’m just treating it as a training run now. Hopefully try and do maybe 10 miles this weekend, and then use the “race” as a chance to build that to 13+. It is what it is. I doubt I’ll even be able to match my average pace for the marathon over half the distance, but the A races are still many months away so I’m fairly relaxed about not being in a position to give it a bash. April is still a long way away for you too, so you have a decent amount of time.
Yeah I have put the training in and even got a 3 hour run under my belt so if I can get to the line I am confident I will do a decent time just not as good as would hope.
Issue is lower back and causing sharp pain in my glute and down my hamstring when running.
I am going to try again tonight and do an easy run and see how that feels.
Kin hell thats depressing! My 800m intervals are what some folk here can knockout over 42,200m.
Okay, so bearing in mind that I’m on a pace-based training plan, Run Less Run Faster, 3 hard runs per week plus cross training, I’ve got a bit of a quandary for my long run on Saturday. This Saturday calls for 29km at 5:39.
Two weeks ago, as per the first quote I held the target pace of 5:44 but fell apart a long way short of the necessary 32km. And I tend to agree with @fatpom that I could’ve held 6:00 for the distance from the start, but that’s far too slow for this plan if I’m going to break 4hrs comfortably.
-ve A touch faster, but shorter than my failed run two weeks ago.
-ve I can’t have another long run fail 10 weeks out
+ve I’ve hit and exceeded my goals paces for 1600m repeats (track) 7:08 normal shoes, and 6:45 in the magic shoes
+ve 5k @4:45 normal shoes
+ve exceeded goal for half marathon @5:07 magic shoes
+ve I’ve only got a bike and a swim tomorrow which I can do in the morning, no heavy weights the night before this time
+ve I’m nearly a kilo lighter
So,
Did you run out of energy on your ‘failed’ run?
Personally I would go slower but stick to the distance and see how the run goes and if you can pick up the pace towards the end then do that.
I think time on your feet is more important.
It will come good on race day 
personally i’d go for #1. Your positives are a lot stronger than your negatives. Even if you, for whatever reason, didn’t complete it perfectly there are other factors at play and the negative psychological effects can be reframed - taper, too much pressure on the training run etc.