Week and Rodes City Run review
copied from an email I sent to "The Group"
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Saturday was a little cool for me, but based upon weather predictions I don't think that we could have asked for a better day. As far as my race went, it went about as expected.
On our Thursday run I said that anything between 37:00 and 39:30 would be acceptable so I made that. The frustrating part for me was not having that top speed. I ran 6:08ish twice but between miles 3 and 4 I wanted sub 6, but didn't make it.
Despite the ego fulfillment that sub 6 would have given me, I'm not sure that there would have been any relevance to my marathon training. :) I finished the week with 6 hours and 48 minutes of total running time, which is my second largest total yet (6:54 last week). So running the race in the middle of that schedule makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.
Now Nikki once again over shadowed my running. She ran 47 something, which is 7 minutes faster than her PR of 54 that she ran at the Bluegrass 10K last summer. AND she looked solid at the end of her 2:30 run yesterday.
Lot's of Todd's Road Runners at the race. (Carol, Skip, Steve, George, Ernie, Sue, Sarah and more that I'm missing) A nice way to run a race.
Despite all the x's and o's. This is the first race that I've tried to "race" since the Bix 7 in 2004. And it is amazing how much "CHATTER" I had going on in my mind.
So while I may be in shape to run, I've got to get that out of the way. 16 miles of that kind of thinking would lead to mental exhaustion and physical break-down. Just another piece to the puzzle.
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Saturday was a little cool for me, but based upon weather predictions I don't think that we could have asked for a better day. As far as my race went, it went about as expected.
On our Thursday run I said that anything between 37:00 and 39:30 would be acceptable so I made that. The frustrating part for me was not having that top speed. I ran 6:08ish twice but between miles 3 and 4 I wanted sub 6, but didn't make it.
Despite the ego fulfillment that sub 6 would have given me, I'm not sure that there would have been any relevance to my marathon training. :) I finished the week with 6 hours and 48 minutes of total running time, which is my second largest total yet (6:54 last week). So running the race in the middle of that schedule makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.
Now Nikki once again over shadowed my running. She ran 47 something, which is 7 minutes faster than her PR of 54 that she ran at the Bluegrass 10K last summer. AND she looked solid at the end of her 2:30 run yesterday.
Lot's of Todd's Road Runners at the race. (Carol, Skip, Steve, George, Ernie, Sue, Sarah and more that I'm missing) A nice way to run a race.
Despite all the x's and o's. This is the first race that I've tried to "race" since the Bix 7 in 2004. And it is amazing how much "CHATTER" I had going on in my mind.
So while I may be in shape to run, I've got to get that out of the way. 16 miles of that kind of thinking would lead to mental exhaustion and physical break-down. Just another piece to the puzzle.
posted by gary at 10:22 AM
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