Good bye September, Hello October! Temperature at race start: 50 degrees - WooHoo! September was by far my highest mileage month ever & the first time I broke 200 miles (224). No taper for this race!
This weekend races conclude my ramped up mileage marathon training, taper starts Monday. The goal for today (and my half marathon tomorrow) is simple, marathon pace miles at 6:50. I spent the first 3 miles telling myself to slow down, but 6:30 pace felt very comfortable. At the halfway point I knew I was on pace to PR & would, as I was not pushing hard. I decided to just hold pace, and then kicked it up a notch the last 1.2, but still not to an all out race effort. I took a minute off my PR & easily would have broken 40, if I had pushed harder. Very pleased with my effort/time, tomorrow I won't get carried away ... 6:50 pace is the target ... and there will be some big hills that will test me on that. Anyway, today was a big boost to my confidence, and confirmed 'Trust your Training' Oh, how I wish I were racing St. George today, hope all fared well that did!!
| Split |
Time |
Distance |
Avg Pace |
| 1 |
6:29 |
1 |
6:29 |
| 2 |
6:30 |
1 |
6:30 |
| 3 |
6:24 |
1 |
6:24 |
| 4 |
6:36 |
1 |
6:36 |
| 5 |
6:24 |
1 |
6:24 |
| 6 |
6:18 |
1 |
6:18 |
| 7 |
1:57 |
0.38 |
5:07 |
| Summary |
40:37 |
6.38 |
6:22
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I am not sure why I am not getting accurate splits on my Garmin, it used to almost always be right on. Alot of this course was on pathways, and there really were not too many tangents to run, and I thought I was running them well. Timp from the blog also ran today, and his Garmin read 6.24, which is about what I expect in a 10k. When it gets off as far as it was in my last 2 races, you really can't use the 'Avg. pace' as a guide ... as the watch said I was running a 6:22 pace, but my actual 10k pace was 6:33 - that is a huge difference! Ran 2 easy cool down miles with Tim, before awards, where I got a ATC travel mug ... which is actually not a bad deal because the race was free to members!
PM 1.5mile shakeout jog
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