7.11 at 7:30 pace. I think I will back off a bit this week with the mileage. My legs are pretty sore and I am leaning towards running the SLC marathon this week (but strictly to get the mileage, not necessarily to race).
I am going to run the marathon tomorrow with Mark. Our plan is to go 8:30-9:00 minute miles for the first 20, and then see if we can't drop it down to 7:30 for the last 6 miles. No need to kill ourselves in this one as we are wanting to focus more on the Ogden marathon next month.
Salt Lake Marathon (26.2 Miles) 03:37:13, Place overall: 154, Place in age division: 23
Total Distance
26.30
Goal was to go about 8:30-9:00 minute miles for the first 20
or so, and then drop the time down to 7:30s.I was trying to make this a training run for the Ogden marathon and my
brother is getting ready for the 50 miler that’s coming up, so we didn’t want
to kill ourselves too much.
1
8:01
2
8:02
3
7:45
4
8:07
5
8:42
Pit Stop
6
8:14
7
8:17
8
8:03
9
8:12
10
8:32
11
8:20
12
8:51
13
8:26
14
8:30
15
8:01
16
9:17
Pit Stop
17
8:15
18
8:55
19
8:25
20
9:00
21
8:49
22
7:45
23
7:51
24
7:29
25
7:47
26
7:26
0.3
1:59
Basically, things went as planned.We were going quite a bit faster than planned
for most the race, just because it was hard to slow ourselves down.Things felt really easy for the first 8-9
miles.Miles 9 through about 14 were the
prettiest of the race.Legs started to
get stiff around mile 16.We probably
began to take a bit longer at the aid stations as well.
I usually have problems with marathons around mile 20.That is where the mental battle usually begins
for me and that is why I wanted to try and bring my times down for miles
20-26.I wanted to prove to myself that
I could do it at the end.About mile 21
we took off and it was great to start passing so many people.Felt like we were really trucking along, and
I think we both felt really good.About
mile 24.5 my brother broke away from me.I couldn’t keep up with him.I
could definitely tell that he has done a lot more long runs than I have.There was a killer hill at the end of State
Street.It was rough and I walked it for
about 10 seconds.
I have some serious doubts about being able to qualify for
Boston at the Ogden Marathon, but I think I’m going to go for it.I might crash and burn in the last part of
that race, but oh well.Great race today
though.
