The training for this marathon has proved to be the most different than the other three I have run. This time around with two kids, full time job, and life as a wife I realize that you just do what you do and move on rather than spend time dwelling. This doesn’t mean that I don’t have goals. It just means that instead of worrying that I didn’t have the perfect route or time or whatnot I think of what Pinkalicious’ mom says in the book “You get what you get and you don’t get upset.”
Here is the breakdown of my training partner’s and I second long run.
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Split
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Time
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Distance
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Avg Pace
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|---|---|---|---|
| Summary | 1:41:51.7 | 9.00 | 11:19 |
| 1 | 10:56.7 | 1.00 | 10:57 |
| 2 | 10:47.3 | 1.00 | 10:47 |
| 3 | 11:11.2 | 1.00 | 11:11 |
| 4 | 11:23.8 | 1.00 | 11:23 |
| 5 | 11:23.0 | 1.00 | 11:23 |
| 6 | 11:17.3 | 1.00 | 11:17 |
| 7 | 11:22.6 | 1.00 | 11:23 |
| 8 | 11:41.5 | 1.00 | 11:42 |
| 9 | 11:48.4 | 1.00 | 11:50 |
We are heading out this week for 11 miles. My goal as we continue this quest and move forward is that we work towards negative splits. Like always, I want to work on warming up to my run and really picking the pace up as we go. I am trying to figure out how we can start out a little slower this weekend when there are two of us and we definitely have different internal pacing guides, etc. What I am trying to do on my treadmill runs is increase the speed (rate) just a little bit (a .1) every minute or two minutes so that I can feel what it is like to go just a little faster and then go back to a baseline to see what it feels like to go slow and then repeat. I am sure there is a technical running term for that. For me, it is also a little bit of a game to keep me sane while running like a gerbil in place, especially when I do silly things like leave my music and water bottle at home.
At least I have met part of my goal this week, run #1 of 3 miles done as of yesterday.
Here is the whole week in preview:
- Monday — 3 miler — DONE.
- Thursday — 3 miler
- Friday — 6 miles
- Saturday — 11 miles
- Sunday — REST
- Monday — Start again
Four runs per weeks seems to be doable as of this point. We shall see how it all goes.
Now, off to wake the family!
Happy Running!
