re: Official Running Log/Marathon Training Thread

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Great race man, how’d it go?

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Thanks, guys. Well, it was a slog. A 50k that started at 7:00 last night. About 3,600 feet total elevation. I had some real lows on the front half of this race. Probably my worst race experience to date. It wasn’t the race - good people, good race. I just had a bad mental attitude early on . This wasn’t a goal race for me. I signed up as a training run and for the experience - it’s a race a lot of trail runners in this area do and have good things to say about. But the heat index was 102 at the start. My stomach didn’t want any nutrition. It got dark and my headlamp strap was broken when I pulled it out of my pack. My HR monitor broke. I was getting passed by old ladies on walkers (it felt that way at least). My brain was just telling me I didn’t need to be out there, that this was stupid, and to drop. My goal at about mile 10 was just to get to the halfway turnaround and bow out. Then for some reason I started feeling better about 13. The humidity and heat dropped, and I was able to turn it around a little bit. I started to just enjoy the solitude of the woods at night. The back half went fine, and I passed a lot of people on the way back. I was glad I stuck it out. My buddy and I decided this was probably a one-time race for us. But glad I did it once, and it’s in the books. Now it’s on to the Chicago marathon in October. Will prob find a half to run in September or so to tune up.

Been 6 years since I ran a half and I signed up for Houston in January.

I am slow so right now I am prepping for a 10k on Labor Day weekend (not a real race just as a benchmark). I want to run that under 60. Then build towards the half

I ran a hot and humid 4 miles yesterday

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am slow so right now I am prepping for a 10k on Labor Day weekend (not a real race just as a benchmark). I want to run that under 60. Then build towards the half

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im just starting back up. I miiiiight be able to hit that mark at the moment. I’m so slow

I have a chance to finish summer/ pre-marathon training strong , set 5K and 10K PRs, and aggressively reset my marathon training paces.

I have two tune up events before my 9/14 training starts and I'm going to train hard to hit these:
8/3 5K: under 24:30 (1:15 PR)
8/31 10K: sub 50:00

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long and slow

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I need to focus more in that area. My training runs are too fast and I need to fix it before I get hurt or over trained. It’ll help with recovery too. Can’t race fast if I’m to damn tired to run.

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I need to focus more in that area. My training runs are too fast and I need to fix it before I get hurt or over trained.

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Same here for the most part, although I'm currently running about half of your weekly mileage.

I go out on my long runs and aim for 1-1.5 mins/mile more than my expected marathon pace (10:00/mile). I always go faster though.

My mid week runs are at 4am so I just focus on negative splits on those.

Oh hell yeah! Actually “slept in” a little today until 5:30 as I wasn’t worried about beating the sun up.

My mid week Q session happens to be 8 easy today instead of a speed/track workout but it would have been nice to do some speed work in this weather as opposed to the July norm. Anywho, gonna enjoy 8 easy today and 7 tomorrow while soaking up this fall-ish weather.

Today is my off day. Gonna miss out on those mid 60 temps. But I see tomorrow morning still looks favorable.

It’s my first plan going easy most of the time. I’m gonna put a lot of stock on how I perform on race day. Should be interesting.