re: Official Running Log/Marathon Training Thread

He’s a beast. I think he travels a bit and maybe has a young kid.

I saw somewhere he’s planning on moving to Montana or Wyoming in the near future.

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Y’all see Gatlin ran a 9.87 at 37 years old yesterday? Hmm...

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What are you insinuating?


First thing that got my attention was how muscular and toned his upper body still is.

Black n Gold,

I have a 10K + race #1 in a Texas 10 miler race series before 9/1.

In all honesty, I expect my fitness/ability to be worse than in the Spring but I'll just have to reevaluate,see what new deficiencies pop up from summer running, and train them away.

The Houston Half is in October and I'll use that for a realistic marathon pace & adjust the training paces in the back end of my plan.

I want to prepare myself now to put in a strong effort in October ..strong being relatively speaking for me @ 1:53:XX.

Black n Gold,

I'm a pessimist by nature and based that off a blog I found promoting 3 - 4% improvement as a benchmark.

I was at 1:56:45 according to Garmin Connect but you are right ,screw it. I need to be more aggressive and push harder.

Thanks for helping me get out of my own head, I'm tearing down my old goal pace charts and putting some new ones up now.

I'm healthy and have time...October Houston Half goal , 1:49:XX...that's a 6% improvement.

TigeRoots,

Thanks for the advice and the fading isnt done on purpose, it's just due to poor stamina lol..I'm actually trying to run hard at the end but feel like I'm in quicksand.

I will dial it back and make an effort to purposely do some negative split pacing..thanks again.

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You’re making some of these cats look like fools with the miles you’re putting in

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Hey now, I take offense to that! Lulz

So I’m doing the Prarie Fire Marathon here in Wichita in October 13 (also my birthday). I’m training with someone running Chicago on the same day. He’s a track/xc coach at a NAIA here in town (I’ll actually be working with him this year for that as well) and wrote the plan that we’re using. It’s a combination of the Hansen plan mixed with a few other plans/tweaks he’s made. Our longest is going to be 20 which has me nervous but he explained something to me during our long run the other day that made sense. The idea is that your getting your hard mileage in with the tempos and speed work during the week. If you can make it to the back half of the race than you have the endurance to make it the rest of the way ideally the only question is the strength/nutrition aspect of it. The hope is that once you get that far the strength from the faster workouts kicks in and you’ve done the right things nutritionally that you’re good to go.

I’m gunning for sub 2:40 that way I can have a qualifying mark for all of the world majors so I can start knocking those guys out. Eventually my goal is to get into the Olympic trials just to say I did it but I’m probably an Olympic cycle or two away from that being a reality.

Thanks man!

I ran for ULM so me and a few of my old teammates were flipping out over that last night. Dudes gonna wreck shop in the sunbelt if he stays long enough. I could see him using it the job to just gain some coaching clout tho and then move on in a couple years.

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