 Week 10 of the Paris Marathon training vlog and it's been another epic week this week We reached 200 park runs I run a half marathon as fast as I can possibly go and I get a rather stern email From a very arrogant Kiwi. Yeah as I politely gently explained in the email to you It's a stupid idea Having run the Stenning Stinger Marathon the day before Which I'll link up there My legs were in no fit state to do a hard track session on Monday. I did go to the track. I did five times 1000 meters at marathon pace or just a bit faster than marathon pace So no really really fast running just marathon pace effort For five kilometers now we can pretty much skip over Tuesday If you've been following the Paris marathon training series Then you'll know what happens on the Tuesday, and if you don't go and have a look at my Strava Strava is there for everyone to see all my training sessions are on it So go and check out Strava, but Tuesday was an easy day. You see Wednesday is when the week really gets interesting because I Went out running with Stuart Mills now Stuart has been following the Paris marathon training series and emailed me a few days before Quite sternly to tell me That I was doing it all wrong, but the thing is Stuart isn't just any old guy Emailing me to tell me I'm doing it wrong Stuart is a really well-respected Ultra runner and has run in a GV vest before even though he's a Kiwi He's been living in the UK for years and he's running a GV vest Let me let Stuart explain a few of his credentials to you. I've won beachy-head marathon eight times Won the late 100 twice I did my best road marathon at London Marathon In 1995 when I was training for Ironman and that was 229 And you've run for Great Britain of course. Yes. Yes, and that was at the 2011 at the age of 148 In the elite team. This is not the masters. This is the Great Britain elite team. Yeah as a world the IAU international association of ultra World championships Stuart and I ran for about 24 kilometers on Wednesday morning And by the time we'd finished and had a cup of coffee together He had convinced me to scrap my plans for the last three weeks of marathon training and Listen to his advice See I had been planning to do two 100 mile weeks With a two-week taper at the end of my marathon training block And I'd also been planning to run a half marathon at marathon pace To check that my heart rate was going to be at the right level For marathon running after my run with Stuart That was all out the window. I did do a hard interval session on Wednesday evening though So as usual on Zwift We did the Paris marathon interval training session Along with loads of other people who are coming to join us in Paris for the Paris marathon And we did an under over interval session which we've done three times before in this training block So you've seen it before Five minutes under threshold and then five minutes above threshold Five minutes under threshold and then four minutes Over threshold a little bit faster five minutes under threshold and then three minutes even faster than two and then one minute Thursday was my usual two easy sessions on Zwift nice climbing session in the morning Relaxed bag that badge session in the evening So if you are watching this and enjoying it and finding it useful or interesting Please do hit that subscribe button Click the bell notification icon as well. So you're notified every time we upload a new video on the film My run channel if you're a premium YouTube subscriber then no adverts But if you're not there might be one here now And also before we continue just a quick thank you to my sponsors Zwift and also noble pro Noble pro treadmills there's a link down below if you're looking to buy a treadmill Then noble pro have some of the best most affordable smart treadmills on the market Please go and check out the link below where you can get a discount with my code So I'm going to leave it to Stu to explain to you why he feels that doing two 100 mile weeks in the closing stages of my marathon training block is a terrible idea Yeah, as I politely gently explained in the email to it It's a stupid idea. Your body needs time to adapt and and the physical training is You don't need that much especially not two weeks out of not even three weeks out your last big week Should ideally be four weeks out your last big week. So then you've got four weeks Where you're beginning to ease down training all training is is making So when you're on that start line, you feel that you are prepared to achieve the goals you want to achieve Mentally, you feel you're mentally prepared Stu also has some really interesting ideas about the psychology of running and I'll let him explain a little bit about why a lot of your running confidence is Not to do with how physically well trained you are but how much you've got it up there Endurance performance is only indirectly Determined by your physical training and that's because Endurance performance is mainly determined by your emotion and your self expectations and so what you're trying to do with your physical training is to Improve your self expectations. So you feel when you're on that start line, you feel prepared So that's what physical training is to make you feel prepared. So it's like that quote Whether you believe you can or you believe you can't you're right exactly at the start of the the build-up so right I used to ask my athletes three questions what Do you want from the race? Yeah, so what do you want to achieve? Why Do you want to achieve it? Yeah, and how much? How much doesn't matter that you achieve it? So why is your goal? What do you want to do? Why do you want to do it? And how much do you want it? Those are the questions you have to ask yourself One thing I really wanted to do was make it to 200 park runs and we did that on Saturday at Worthing park run 200th park run I wore two sashes the video is linked right up there If you want to go and watch it had a lovely time and met an Olympian and an age group world record holder to boot Week 10 was supposed to be another high mileage week a hundred miles according to my plan However, following Stu's advice I cut it down to a hundred and thirty K and we finished the week with the Surrey half marathon and Here's where Stuart's advice Had the first major impact on my running Because he told me to forget my watch Put it away Don't look at it and run the half marathon as fast as you possibly can without looking at your watch Now he wasn't being gung-ho. He didn't say just go out like a crazy person do a measured effort You know think about your pace think about how fast you're running and how far you've got to go But given that run as fast as you can and do not look at your watch So that's what I did Now given that I was originally going to run the Surrey half marathon at marathon pace and Keep my heart rate as low as possible just to check that I was definitely on track Doing it as fast as I could Was a big change and Looking at my Strava. I'm not entirely sure. I was confident enough to really go for it in the first 10 kilometers It's a little bit tentative Which may mean that I didn't get quite as fast as I could have got I Finished the Surrey half-math and in one hour 24 minutes and 10 seconds Just 40 seconds shy of my half marathon PV And I reckon I could have got it if I'd just been a bit more confident in the process But I did and I think that's what counts. I tried my best my first time ever Doing a race like that without looking at any kind of device to tell me how fast I was going and big thanks to Stu Who got me to my second fastest ever half marathon and if it wasn't for my Tentativeness, perhaps I could have got my fastest ever half marathon and that bodes really well for Paris a 124 half if you look at any of the marathon pace calculators You'll see that's well on track for a sub three hour marathon So let's wrap up with our usual look at how hard I worked last week 12 sessions Three of them were hard efforts. So we had the Wednesday Paris marathon training session on Zwift I did a fast 5k in the afternoon on Saturday and then the half marathon on Sunday Now the half marathon skews things a bit in terms of heart rate Because I spent a lot of time in zone 4 During the half marathon So you can see we've spent about an hour and 36 minutes In zones 4 and 5 that it creates for about 13% which is an awful lot of time spent in zones 4 and 5 and in terms of distance we've done about 39 kilometers of fast hard running and again that skewed quite a lot because of the half marathon Most of my running in week 10 was outdoors 87 kilometers outdoors 43 on the treadmill on Zwift But it's all looking good That's a bit too good, isn't it? It's looking Omnisciently like I'm gonna have to actually try and do a sub three hour marathon in Paris Oh my god If you'd like to watch any of the other Paris marathon training videos in the series then click that link right there That'll take you to the playlist Thank you very much for watching if you haven't subscribed Please do subscribe and really appreciate it click the like button if you found the video useful or interesting or entertaining or anything Click the dislike button if you hated it and we'll see you on the star line next time. Cheers guys. Have a great one