What do you do if you miss a long run?? Marathon runners...

I'm in middle of marathon training. My first full is on 11/16. Yesterday was supposed to be my long run, but it was a drop back week. I'm following Hal Higdon novice 1 and I'm on week 12. Yesterday I should have run 12 miles (after running 16 last weekend). Well I missed my run. I'm in pretty excrutiating pain. I have a bad toothache which I think needs root canal. It also has been causing horrible headaches so I was in no shape to run yesterday, especially a long run like that. What should I do? Is it ok to miss a week like that? Should I make it up? I'm thinking no because my weekly mileage is already pretty high (17 miles). I'm supposed to run 18 this weekend. Do you think I'd be ok to do that? I should also add that I'm a little ahead in my training. I started early just in case I would have to repeat weeks.

I'm going to the dentist today after work so I'm hoping that will be it. Can you run right after a dental procedure also ? Say tomorrow? Of course this has to happen right in the middle of my training. Any input?


TIA

What do you do if you miss a long run?? Marathon runners...

If it were me, I would just skip the 12 mile altogether. Skip today (if you were supposed to run today) and run when you feel that you can, even if it means taking off a few days. Get back by the end of the week. I know when I have bad sinus infections and I run, I cannot stand all the bouncing in my face- I imagine that is what the root canal would feel like. So I would give it 2 or 3 days to heal a little first.
Good luck, and feel better! It seems like you will be fine.

Re: What do you do if you miss a long run?? Marathon runners...

I agree, its fine to skip it!

What do you do if you miss a long run?? Marathon runners...

if your heart is really telling you to do something, i would do something low impact... riding a bike.

otherwise, i would skip it.

start running your plan as soon as you take care of that tooth!

good luck to you. i'll be running my first marathon that same weekend (just the following day)!

What do you do if you miss a long run?? Marathon runners...

Skip it, you'll be fine. I planned my first marathon for the first weekend in May 2011 when I already knew I'd be spending 2 weeks in South Korea/China at the end of March 2011, right at what should have been the peak of my training. I was there for school, so I didn't have any free time for training runs. So yeah, I basically missed two whole weeks of training, give or take a couple of treadmill runs.

Although I didn't run the race as well as I had hoped, I still finished and really, only 30 minutes slower than I expected and the course was HILLY! Other than my husband who PR'd that day, the rest of our group all ran about 30min- 1hr off pace, so I don't feel so bad :)

Re: What do you do if you miss a long run?? Marathon runners...

totally agree...skipping is OK - especially a step back week. No need to push it and get injured