Saturday: 5.2 mile @ about 9:18 pace
Today: 18 miles which included about 14.75 @ marathon pace.
So today was the second of two extended marathon pace runs of the training plan. The first was a 12 miler that I did a few weeks ago as part of a half marathon. Today's was a 14 miler as part of a 17 mile long run. Drove down to the lake again to run part of the marathon course. The plan was to do a slow three mile warm up and then do 14 miles at my Boston pace of 7:15 min/mile.
| Lap | Lap Time | HR Avg | Lap | Lap Time | HR Avg | |
| 1 | 09:09.9 | 135 | 11 | 06:59.6 | 168 | |
| 2 | 08:25.9 | 147 | 12 | 07:19.0 | 170 | |
| 3 | 08:12.6 | 151 | 13 | 07:15.3 | 172 | |
| 4 | 07:08.2 | 166 | 14 | 07:09.1 | 173 | |
| 5 | 07:10.0 | 168 | 15 | 06:57.8 | 172 | |
| 6 | 06:59.5 | 170 | 16 | 07:25.0 | 170 | |
| 7 | 07:22.6 | 170 | 17 | 07:13.6 | 172 | |
| 8 | 07:16.9 | 169 | 18 | 07:11.6 | 173 | |
| 9 | 07:12.4 | 168 | 19 | 02:24.4 | 164 | |
| 10 | 07:08.1 | 166 | ||||
A couple of the miles were a bit short so some of the sub 7 miles I'm pretty sure are wrong. Garmin says I ran 18.27 miles total. My foot pod (uncalibrated) says I ran only 17.2 miles. I'm a bit anal about paces and this was kinda important so I ended up manually mapping the whole route and it came to a little under 18 miles total with the marathon pace portion at around 14.75 miles which I did in 1:47:27. This translates into 7:17.1 min/mile pace which when converted to the marathon distance is a 3:10:52 marathon time! Skin of my teeth! HR was about right. Ideally I like to keep it below 170, but a few beats over is fine as I'm sure cooler temperatures on race day will help with that.
Total for the week was 52 miles. Upcoming week is as follows:
Tuesday: 8 miles including 5x600m @ 5k pace
Wednesday: 11 miles General Aerobic
Friday: 4 miles Recovery including 6 strides
Saturday: Yasso 800's workout
Sunday: 17 miles
Oh BTW, I signed up for the Scotiabank marathon today so it's now official!
Have a great week!
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5 comments:
Wow, you're going for it! that's a great job you did on the pace run. How warm was it in toronto today?
Thanks. Actually it wasn't too warm this morning. I started at about 7:30 and it was 16C or so. When I finished it was about 21C. Nothing like the stuff you're getting in DC.
Yay you signed up =) I have all the confidence in you, with the hard training you pulled this summer you will get your BQ goal!
You'll get your BQ...I have no doubts whatsoever. :)
Thanks all! I wish I had the same level of confidence, but I'm sure that'll come as the race gets nearer.
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