Month 5: Overcoming the infamous wall
It helps to top up those energy reserves during the run, even if only marginally, by way of hydrating drinks and gels. But at some point, late in the race, those glycogen levels will start running on empty.Hunter S Thompson’s Hell’s Angels
Smyth reckoned men are two to three times more likely to hit that dreaded wall around that 32km-mark, meaning, as he also defined it, that these runners suffer a 30 per cent decline in pace over those late 10 or so kilometers of the race. One more daunting finding in Smyth’s report was that while overall only about five per cent of runners hit the wall properly hard – as in it slowed them to a walk or a vastly reduced running pace – this likelihood of hitting the wall was much higher for those finishing in more than 4½ hours. For example, 20 per cent of men who finished in five hours hit the wall.
As important as it is to keep a running diary, do remember what Noel Carroll, the co-founder of the first Dublin Marathon in 1980, always preached.
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