2 miles "warm up,"5 miles @ 1/2 marry pace, 3 miles "cool down." I'm starting week 11 of Phitzinger's 70 mile/ 18 week training plan. Plan says "10 mi w/ 5 mi @15k to half marathon race pace." I want to run a 3:10 marathon, so I plugged that into a Runners World pace calculator that said 1:31 for the half, which is 6:56 pace. It was 88° to 90° during my lunch run. So I planned to just keep it near 7:00 pace depending upon how I felt. I averaged 6:57 for those 5 miles BUT I stopped 1.5 miles into it and wet my shirt and hat with cool water (watched stopped). These miles were flat but hot. My effort felt maintainable but I got hot and was running harder toward the end. The City of Trees Marathon (Boise) will be rolling but cool (hopefully). SO how did I do? Should I be thinking about revising my goal up or down? I guess I'm wondering because I thought I would run this much slower because of the heat, but maybe I would have had I not cooled off once in the middle of the run (and before and after).
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