Today I got up at 5am to ride to the Pocatello Marathon course. I got 3 hours of sleep last night because of our next door neighbors lighting fireworks till 2am. I can't remember the last time when I woke up this tired and no energy it was awful. My pastor, sister-in-law, cousin and his friend were also going with me. We were all running the course, because they are also doing the marathon. This will be my pastor's first marathon, and my sister-in-laws second marathon, my cousin's first marathon, and his friend is actually doing the TOU marathon and he's done three marathon's with his best time at 3:25.
Now they were going to run at a 9-10 minute mile pace so I won't be running with them because I wanted to do some marathon pace miles on my new Ohana Ascis Racers which I only had 17 miles on. I want these to be my marathon shoe so I needed to test them on a long training run. They fit so good where the DS Trainers are really tight on me.
I really ran with little effort. I was amazed how easy the 17 mile run was at a finishing pace of 6:29 ( I cooled-down the last three miles). Was it the new shoes? Muscle memory from running the course so much? The fact that I was dead tired and no energy before we started? I was thinking I wish the marathon could have been this morning. Sometimes I think your running is all in sync and everything comes together. I've had several runs like this lately.
Splits
1. 6:40 (warming up)
2. 6:21
3. 6:22 (feeling good)
4. 6:12 (was easy but want to stay consistent around 6:30)
5. 6.22 (too easy)
6. 6:14 (little effort still)
7. 6:21
8. 6:21 (still feeling no effort needed at this pace)
9. 7:45 (Alert Brown Code, good thing I carried toilet paper)
10. 6:08 (easy)
11. 6:09 (easy but still need to drop pace to be consistent)
12. 6:22
13 6:17
14. 6:28 (still easy pace)
15 6: 42 (Start cool down up major hill)
16. 6:44
17. 6:45
Totals 17.22 miles at 6:29 in 1:51.
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