September 14, 2013
Today, I am going to a wedding. Relatives of Honey are getting married. Congrats to Patricia and Carlos!! I hope you have a lifetime of happiness.
Before the wedding, of course, I have to run. I ran in the afternoon today, so it was a bit hot. That wasn't the issue though. Holy crap, my legs were like lead. I guess the hill run yesterday worked. They say running hills is like weight lifting for runners, and that is absolutely true. I miss these types of workouts in my weekly routine. I have a couple of options when I am home to do some hill running, I just haven't taken advantage of them because they are not convenient, but maybe I will change that.
First, let's take a look again at the 22 Essential Pieces of Marathon Training Advice on Active.com. Today we are at lesson 7:
Set Goals, But Keep Them Flexible
Past marathon performances are the best source to use when setting future marathon time goals. In many cases, the most sensible goal is to beat your previous best time by a slight margin. How much of an improvement is realistic depends on how much better your fitness is during your current marathon ramp-up than it was in previous ones. —Matt Fitzgerald
Before the wedding, of course, I have to run. I ran in the afternoon today, so it was a bit hot. That wasn't the issue though. Holy crap, my legs were like lead. I guess the hill run yesterday worked. They say running hills is like weight lifting for runners, and that is absolutely true. I miss these types of workouts in my weekly routine. I have a couple of options when I am home to do some hill running, I just haven't taken advantage of them because they are not convenient, but maybe I will change that.
First, let's take a look again at the 22 Essential Pieces of Marathon Training Advice on Active.com. Today we are at lesson 7:
Set Goals, But Keep Them Flexible
Past marathon performances are the best source to use when setting future marathon time goals. In many cases, the most sensible goal is to beat your previous best time by a slight margin. How much of an improvement is realistic depends on how much better your fitness is during your current marathon ramp-up than it was in previous ones. —Matt Fitzgerald
The linked article is all about pacing. You have to be flexible in your goals because there is a good chance that by the time you are 20 miles into your marathon, your goals could be well on their way to being shattered. You may hit the wall. You may find that you lost your legs somewhere in mile 18 and you are running on pure adrenaline that this point. The article gives you some good strategies to learn how to pace well. The best strategy is that you need to run a marathon! Your best indicator of how to pace will be how you have done so in the past. You can always use shorter races, but is is very hard to mentally calculate how much energy you will have by the time you hit the last 10k of the marathon.
Here are my numbers for today:
Time: 25:00
Distance: 2.58 miles
Pace: 9:42/m
Max Pace: 7:31/m
Calories: 210
Avg HR: 126
Max HR: 162
I ran today pretty easy. The high HR is due to the end of my run where I need to run back up the hill to Honey's house. This was more of a crawling run than an actual run, but my heart was beating like I was sprinting. My legs were shot at this point, so I couldn't do much more than walk, really. I made running motions, but I was moving at a slow walk.
Run for Life!
I ran today pretty easy. The high HR is due to the end of my run where I need to run back up the hill to Honey's house. This was more of a crawling run than an actual run, but my heart was beating like I was sprinting. My legs were shot at this point, so I couldn't do much more than walk, really. I made running motions, but I was moving at a slow walk.
Run for Life!
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