I started the week with a 50 minute run to gauge how my foot is doing under load. Pain came and went but overall stable.

I also did two 30 minute runs - one on a treadmill and one outdoors - and I threw in some bike an elliptical to keep the endurance training going without putting effort on my foot.

The outdoors run was nice even though it was raining. I maintained a pretty stable 6:30 min./km which is way faster than my usual treadmill training pace at ~8:15 min./km. Coach got upset though and told me I should go slower next time.

This week we are trying a reset - I'm back at 40 min. for the long run and 2x 30 min. Easy pace. The idea is to slowly rebuild foot's tolerance to duration.

The schedule got compressed significantly and I'm starting to have doubts whether things will go well.

In the upcoming weeks I'm looking at longest runs ranging:

• 40 min.
• 45 min.
• 50 min.
• 60 min.
• 70-80 min.
• race week

That last jump feels like a lot and I'm not too happy with trying that only a week before the race.

At the same time, I feel like endurance-wise I'm in a good place. The only issue is the foot pain and if we can work that out, everything should go well.

I think next 2 weeks will be very decisive!