AM: 4.25 Felt pretty good. A little aerobically tired but nothing abnormal for a week with this many miles.
PM: 6.5 Lentils caught up to me at the wrong time and made this run rather unpleasant lol. But once I got rid of 'em I felt good again. I can hit 80 with only 1 run tomorrow as a slight taper for the half marathon lol. I have decided, against my better judgement, to shoot for sub 1:20 on sunday. And even more so against my better judgement, to make this goal public lol. That is 6:06 pace for the half marathon. It is folly, and I know it. But who cares about 1:21 or 1:22? If I blow up and run a 1:26 who cares? But a 1:19:59 would be glorious. My plan is to go out just a bit easy--6:10-16 pace and then pick it up to about 6:04 pace (the mid miles of this course are slightly downhill usually with a slight tailwind) and try to hold that through 10. Miles 10-12 of this course are slightly tough usually into the wind and a slight hill. I will try to maintain or just not lose too much and then go for broke in the last mile. The key will be relaxing. The reasons that I think I might have a chance at sub 1:20 are as follows: 1. 5:55 paced 5 miler in training was easy, very negative split, would have been more like 5:50 pace even split 2. 5:59 paced 5 miler in extreme wind. Wasn't easy but I wasn't tapered and it was very negatively split as well. It would have been more like 5:55 pace had I ran it evenly. 3. Based on these times in training, I feel like doubling the distance at these paces in a race situation would be reasonable--not a certainty, but not crazy either.
4. A 60:00 10 miler is of equal or greater performance to sub 1:20 half--meaning that anyone capable of a sub 60 10 miler should be capable of a sub 1:20 half. Here are the reasons that I am being stupid 1. The road is NOT the track. 2. 3min 44sec PR? PR by 17sec/mile? In 5 months? Unlikely. 3. I have only done 1 run over 10 miles since before christmas. 4. I have already run too much this week. A proper taper is out of my reach at this point. If I do 4 miles tomorrow and carbo loading is my best bet. Like I said before--it is not likely that I make it, but why not try? 6:06 pace seems pretty easy on the track for me right now, but will it on the road, at mile 8? 10? and 12?!?
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