Hurt so good.

Letting the taper begin sort of.....

Cutting easy day run by 5 minutes this week and then of course no long run on Saturday. Should out me around 65 miles for the week, hopefully, thats the goal at least.

avg pace 6:58 min/miles

Met up with Bret, Jason, Riley and Dave at the 21st pond to do our aerobic builder. Today we split the builder up by 2X4 mile with half mile jog after the first 4 miles. Goal today was to hit between 5:35 to 5:40 which is goal marathon pace. As I got going the miles felt easy after the first 2 miles so I slowly dropped the pace and had a great overall workout.

Splits were 5:36; 5:37; 5:32; 5:31

Second set was 5:36 over the bridge which is my fastest bridge split this year. 5:26; 5:30; 5:29.

Overall avg of 5:32 min/miles. Again fastest 8 mile split this year on an honest flat route. Again I can't say this enough, and will probably repeat for some while. I feel that my fitness level is going though the roof right now, and I still don't feel like I am 100% back yet. Hopefully the work that I have put in to get to this point this year will show in a week and a half.

Good solid run for everyone. Good luck to Bret this weekend, he is racing the Huntsville half.

Easy run on the TM.

Met up with Riley and Dave at 21st pond to do 2X3 mile fartlek style. Goal was to hit aerobic tempo for half mile then anaerobic for the next half. Take a 4 min break and hammer it out again.

splits were 2:54, 2:37; 3:03, 2:34; 3:05. 2:34

had trouble keeping aerobic pace on the recovery, was harder then I thought. But was happy with the anaerobic splits ( little to fast and took me longer to recover)

2nd split

2:57, 2:37; 3:01, 2:39; 2:58, 2:34

felt better on the second for sure. Between the 2 sets there was only 2 second difference on avg. 5:36 pace and then 5:34 pace. 

Fun workout! Did alittle over 3 mile for war and little over 2 for cool.

Stomach was killing me today! For some reason I had to use the bathroom every half mile or so, so I called it today. Not feeling sick which is the weird thing.....

Great showing to this years 2nd Annual STG Marathon tune up 5K race. Awesome group that showed up today. We had Riley, Jason, Jon, Bryant, Jace, and Dave. So good to see the numbers increased this year! Already looking forward for next years race.

So for me I really wanted to go out and get a solid push, but at the same part beat my time from last year also. So anyways I went out with Bryant and Jason for the first mile which was 5:17 for myself, then in the 2nd mile I really wanted to attack the down hill portion of the 2nd mile I managed 4:58. Then on the 3rd mile I again got passed at the same spot as last year going up the hill. Bryant came pass me and said I cant let Jason beat me and then he took off. Mile 3 was 5:16 and I pushed hard to beat my time from last year and got 17 seconds for the last .07.

So splits from last year- 5:07; 4:55; 5:20 and 25 seconds for last .07

Spits from this year were- 5:17; 4:58; 5:16; and 17 seconds for last .07.

So I actually came up 3 seconds short of my goal time 15:48 from last year. But I am right there again. I feel that I have done everything that I have could've done to get ready for this marathon in such short time. My thoughts,  I feel more prepared this year then any other year. Even more then 2011s race where I went 2:28:47. I have done alot of Marathon paced runs this year and have extended my longest tempo of 10 miles to 15 miles this year. So I guess anything over 2:28:47 I will feel major disappointment, so I am praying for the best.

Todays warm was a little over 5 miles with strides

Cool was 4.64 during our cool down I realized the time and had to get back for my wife to go to work. So I did 1 mile at 5:28 pace and managed to get home right on time.

Great run today, excited for next week.