Tired two weeks out for NYC Marathon

Skip it. At NY, you will be sitting around in the cold for a along time and waiting to start in your corral for a long time. If you have a bad cold on race day, you will have a miserable race. Hay is in the barn. Get healthy for race day.

Get some rest. Better to be undertrained and rested than overtrained and sick!

skip it.

i had this exact same scenario on hanson's last year, gutted out the 10 miler, got hurt, and didn't make the starting line.

pass on the run. I noticed when I'm run down or on the verge of illness a hard workout tends to push me to the other side. Full on sick and exhausted isn't worth it. Like another poster said, better to be undertrained than overtrained for the marathon. Good luck.

Skip for sure. It takes 2 weeks for your work to start showing results i your race. For example, if you go through with the 10 miler and it somehow goes well, you still wouldn't be making your race ay faster. Treat the runs leading up to the marathon as relatively easy days. There won't be ay benefit i killing yourself before the race. Good luck.

You're supposed to be tired. Skip the 10 miler. training plans aren't Gospel.

You could also shorten it to say 4-6 miles to keep the intensity up and keep the body in sync. The body likes routine. As you taper for the race, don't just jog for the last two weeks, you will feel tired and flat. Keep the intensity but cut back the mileage. I have used the Hanson's plan to. I don't like that it calls for only easy running the last 9 days before the goal race. Their elites do some short workouts at or near goal pace in that time. I always use a Pfitzinger workout of 2 mi wu, 2 mi at GP, and 2 mi cd the Tuesday before to keep my legs feeling good. But, if you are really beat up and even a shortened version seems to much, skip it. You could be overtrained.

Listen to your body

Excerpt from a Bob Kennedy interview:

Besides being exposed to faster tempos, what else did you learn from your Kenyan training partners?

BK: One of the biggest things I learned is that sometimes you have to relax. I’ll give you an example. Most American athletes run too hard, too often. Recovery days have to be easy. One day in England, I was going out for an easy afternoon 6-mile run with Moses Kiptanui three days before a meet in Stockholm. We jogged the 300 meters to the park and Moses stops and says he’s too tired to run and he goes home. I’m wondering if he is okay. Three days later, he runs 7:58 for the steeplechase.

I asked him later about skipping that easy run and he said sometimes his body tells him it’s not time to train. Kenyans understand their body better, I think. Whereas a Western athlete, if they are tired, would try to jam their way through it. I learned that from them and was a better athlete as a result.

It's better to be slightly undertrained than overtrained to any degree. And you have the very modest goal of beaking 4 hours. Relax and enjoy it. You've already done all the work you need to do to make it.

Good luck.

skip it - one run will not put you over the top but it could hurt you. sounds like you need the rest more than the extra work at this point.

Thanks all, I appreciate the input. Skipped the run, still feel very tired today so I'm thinking it was a good choice.