So I guess I am pretty much the worst blogger ever this year!! Just because I haven't been blogging doesn't mean that I haven't been running!!! Last night I ran 9 miles in the rain after work. It was the first time all season that I ran after work. It took a little longer than usual to get into it but I still managed to finish in a best time of 78 minutes!! I'm getting super excited for the marathon since I have been able to keep up my faster than normal pace through all my runs this month!
Backtracking to some past runs.....last weekend BFF Alli was here from Oregon so we went up to Waterville Valley and spend Saturday testing our snowboarding skills! Sunday we ran 6 miles and then headed home. Not as long as I should have run but sometimes I think it is nice to take a little break and I think my legs were happy with me for it.
Last Tuesday and Thursday I ran 10 miles and 9.5 miles (I think). I know I ran at least 9.5 miles each day. I keep the best track of my running on my paper training schedule that I keep at my desk because that is where I go after most of my runs! Tomorrow I will post a pic of my super training spreadsheet (which I found on the Cape Cod Athletic Club website). Its like a spreadsheet lovers dream!
Two Saturdays ago I ran 19 miles in the windy rain! I ran with another girl from the Dana Farber team again for 14 of the miles! You can't skip a run because of the weather because you never know what the weather is going to be on marathon day!! I really hope its not raining though because the yuckier the weather, the less people come out and if no one shows up to watch its going to be a long boring 26.2 miles!
This weekend is my last long run! Its a 20 mile race that starts in Maine and usually ends in Massachusetts. This year it ends in New Hampshire because of some bridge work. My Dad and I are going up Sunday morning and its great because the roads are open so my dad can drive ahead a few miles at a time! My goal for this race is to break 3 hours, which is my previous best time for this race!
Well I need to get some rest because I have a 10 mile run planned tomorrow before work!! Good night!
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Hard Core?
Ok....I am a little behind on my blogging so I have a lot to say today.
First I want to talk about my run this morning. Yes as a matter of fact I did go running this morning. When the alarm first went off my gut reaction was to stay in bed, but the second time the alarm went off I figured the least I could do was peak out the window and see how it looked. I checked the backyard and it looked pretty clear so I went for it. I checked weather.com and it said 33 feels like 23 so I put on some extra clothes and wore my old ski jacket and walked out the door into a blizzarding wind storm. Maybe this was not the best idea. Nothing was icy though so it couldn't be that cold. And then Madison would not get in the car. I came very close to leaving her because she was being such a brat but instead we both walked inside and started over. This time I put her leash on before we went outside and then she went right into the car. The actually run wasn't too bad. We went 8 miles (I'm rounding up). I kept going back and forth between felling hard core for being out in this weather and feeling like a wus because I was wearing such an outrageous running outfit. I ended up decided that I was hard core after I got home and my pants were soaked to the knees and my shoes and socks were dripping with slush. I am definitely glad that I went though, just like I always am! :)
The next thing I want to talk about is my Half Marathon race that I did on Sunday. The weather was fabulous and so was the race! I went in with a goal of breaking 2 hours to run 13.1 miles. I was a little nervous in the beginning because it was very crowded and I am not very good at weaving through large crowds of people. In the end I think it might have been to my advantage though because every time I would go to pass through people I would speed up so that we wouldn't trip over each other. In my head every mile I would calculate out what time I wanted my watch to say (9 times # of miles ran) and then compare it to what my watch actually said. I was a little off in the beginning but by mile 5 I was right on target. Then I started getting ahead of target which was nice because I was running faster than I usually do so I wasn't sure if I was going to die (like legs stop moving not actually dying) at the end. I was building myself a nice little cushion in case I had to walk the last mile. Luckily I didn't have to! I finished in 1 hour and 53 minutes!! A new personal best from me and 7 minutes faster than my goal time. I was ecstatic! Even though I finished 1079th out of 2706 I felt like I won! It was great!
Now I had to figure out what that half marathon time meant to my potential new marathon time. I remembered that we got an email from our coach (Jack Fultz the 1976 Champion of the Boston Marathon) that included a formula to calculate your marathon time from races of other distances. So I open up the email and open up a spreadsheet (yes!) and try to figure out my expected finish time. The rule is that each time you double the distance you can expect your per mile pace to increase by 5%. So my pace for the Half was 8:39 per mile. Multiply that by 1.05 and my marathon pace should be 9:05. Multiply that by 26.2 miles and voila I am done with the marathon in 3 hours in 58 minutes!!!! If only it were that easy! :):)
First I want to talk about my run this morning. Yes as a matter of fact I did go running this morning. When the alarm first went off my gut reaction was to stay in bed, but the second time the alarm went off I figured the least I could do was peak out the window and see how it looked. I checked the backyard and it looked pretty clear so I went for it. I checked weather.com and it said 33 feels like 23 so I put on some extra clothes and wore my old ski jacket and walked out the door into a blizzarding wind storm. Maybe this was not the best idea. Nothing was icy though so it couldn't be that cold. And then Madison would not get in the car. I came very close to leaving her because she was being such a brat but instead we both walked inside and started over. This time I put her leash on before we went outside and then she went right into the car. The actually run wasn't too bad. We went 8 miles (I'm rounding up). I kept going back and forth between felling hard core for being out in this weather and feeling like a wus because I was wearing such an outrageous running outfit. I ended up decided that I was hard core after I got home and my pants were soaked to the knees and my shoes and socks were dripping with slush. I am definitely glad that I went though, just like I always am! :)
The next thing I want to talk about is my Half Marathon race that I did on Sunday. The weather was fabulous and so was the race! I went in with a goal of breaking 2 hours to run 13.1 miles. I was a little nervous in the beginning because it was very crowded and I am not very good at weaving through large crowds of people. In the end I think it might have been to my advantage though because every time I would go to pass through people I would speed up so that we wouldn't trip over each other. In my head every mile I would calculate out what time I wanted my watch to say (9 times # of miles ran) and then compare it to what my watch actually said. I was a little off in the beginning but by mile 5 I was right on target. Then I started getting ahead of target which was nice because I was running faster than I usually do so I wasn't sure if I was going to die (like legs stop moving not actually dying) at the end. I was building myself a nice little cushion in case I had to walk the last mile. Luckily I didn't have to! I finished in 1 hour and 53 minutes!! A new personal best from me and 7 minutes faster than my goal time. I was ecstatic! Even though I finished 1079th out of 2706 I felt like I won! It was great!
Now I had to figure out what that half marathon time meant to my potential new marathon time. I remembered that we got an email from our coach (Jack Fultz the 1976 Champion of the Boston Marathon) that included a formula to calculate your marathon time from races of other distances. So I open up the email and open up a spreadsheet (yes!) and try to figure out my expected finish time. The rule is that each time you double the distance you can expect your per mile pace to increase by 5%. So my pace for the Half was 8:39 per mile. Multiply that by 1.05 and my marathon pace should be 9:05. Multiply that by 26.2 miles and voila I am done with the marathon in 3 hours in 58 minutes!!!! If only it were that easy! :):)
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