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Eisenhower half marathon

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Location:

Wichita,KS,

Member Since:

Sep 14, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

marathon pr:  2:59:49.  Saint George 2011

Praire Spirit 50 mile winner 7:36:30 2013

I accidentally ran 100 miles in November 2013.  it was hard.  I threw up a lot.  decided to do a better job next time

I did it again on purpose October 2014--Heartland 100 winner and CR 17:38:37

Heartland 50 winner May 2014

Psycho Wyco 50k winner February 2012

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Run enough to hold off the middle-age spread

 

 

 

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

 

Sub 3 hour marathon--SOMEDAY!  Done!

 

New long term goal:  ....run enough to feel kinda like I did when I was fit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Personal:

I was a single mom.  Two times over.  We all survived, despite the fact that I make atrocious decisions.  Then, I met a man I didn't deserve.  And he loves me so much.  And I love him. We lived in sin and bought a house for two years then hired a judge and officially got married(to our great delight and also the delight of our mothers), then a month later he was diagnosed with cancer.  Well we survived all that and he's 100% fine now.  But, we're really out of shape and really busy with kids and jobs and running just isn't my priority and there's so many other layers to all of it, but I'm running anyway.  This is my failure blog now.  Just to log that one run a week if I snag it.  
Somehow that matters and I want that run recorded.

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Sat, Apr 13, 2013
Race: Eisenhower half marathon (13.23 Miles) 01:29:14, Place overall: 1, Place in age division: 1
Total Distance
13.50

I am okay with this.  Anything under 1:30 was acceptable.  The pace never felt good, felt forced the whole time, so it was a grind, but a sustainable grind nonetheless.  My poor ultra legs are not used to this pace, and I haven't strung together this many sub - 7s in a long time so I am okay with it.  Conditions were perfect, 30s and still, course rolls gently and is out and back, so very honest, although I measured it a bit long, most did. 

Splits:  6:39, 6:44, 6:45, 6:33, 6:37, 6:56, 6:44, 6:35, 6:42, 7:01(grrr), 6:42,6:54, 6:52, last .23 in 1:27 so 6:30ish pace.

I think once marathon specific training starts in summer this can be my marathon pace come fall.

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Comments
From JulieC on Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 14:40:23 from 63.224.112.188

Well done :) happy time! Did u win some things to feed addiction? ;)

From SlowJoe on Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 14:31:11 from 108.34.154.237

Congrats on (another) win! The times will come down, I'm sure of that.

From Neasts on Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 15:24:10 from 75.169.56.70

Whoo-ee! That is fast, especially on the tail of three tough ultras. The training is just so different for ultras, so I have no doubt that your more specific training will give you what you want time-wise come fall. Nice job!

From Bam on Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 03:27:24 from 89.126.28.24

Yep, great work April. I've no doubt that you'll cope with that speed as MP, with some marathon training in you.

Congrats on the win - just disappointed you didn't drop out a cheeky little 20 mile warm down:)

From Rachelle on Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 09:36:51 from 159.212.71.17

Very good race for you April! I completely agree about you maintaining this (or faster) for a fall marathon.

Congrats on the win!

From Tracy on Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 14:43:33 from 209.175.177.37

A great win! You're right: training lots of long mileage without specifically working on HMP made the difference for this one. You'll PR during your training for a fall marathon.

From Tracy on Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 14:50:05 from 209.175.177.37

Wait a minute--is this a PR?

From seeaprilrun on Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 17:58:52 from 68.102.189.33

Tracy--well, technically a pr, but I think my second half at St. George was faster.

From Tracy on Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 08:25:50 from 209.175.177.37

Well, super terrific, then. But I still say you'll see some great gains in the fall with a different kind of training!

:)

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