Archive for September, 2007
Neptune Festival 8k
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What a great day for a race! Temperatures in the high 60’s, low humidity and a fast, flat course - if it wasn’t for the strong wind, the conditions […]
PaceTat - Marathon Pace Band Tattoo
In many of my previous marathons I’ve printed off and worn a wrist pace band to help achieve my time goals. It’s quite an easy thing to do - head on over to the Runner’s World web site, enter your target time & race distance and print the band. Once you’ve trimmed the sheet of […]
Week 12 - Key Run Workout #2
Just 24 hours after yesterday’s energy sapping workout, I decided to run my second key run workout of the week. I plan on running an 8k race on Saturday and a 5k race on Sunday, so I wanted to give myself as much time as possible to recover from tonight’s 10 mile at planned […]
Week 12 - Key Run Workout #1
Here we go with Week 12 of my marathon training plan. As usual, the first workout of the week is a Tuesday afternoon track workout and surprise, surprise, my legs are still fatigued from Sunday’s 20 mile run. Can you guess if this was a successful workout or not?
My extended warm up lasted 25 minutes […]
Week 11 - Key Run Workout #3
No 20 mile run can ever be described as easy (well, not for me anyway), but today’s long run was one of the best I can remember for quite some time. With only 5 weeks to go until my main goal race of 2007, the Marine Corps Marathon, I was in desperate need for […]
Week 11 - Key Run Workout #2
Nice conditions for a run today - 70°F and a light rain. The plan called for an easy mile followed by 5 miles @ MT (Mid Tempo) pace, which for me is 6:23 per mile.
The first mile wasn’t really long enough for a warm up. My legs still felt quite heavy and not very […]
