re: Official Running Log/Marathon Training Thread

I've put in around 425 miles since Memorial Day. This summer has been very satisfactory. Endurance is really improving ahead of the marathon in December.

KS,

Ran an 8K race this weekend & finished with a 6:32/mi pace which I was happy with as I’m aiming for a 40 min 10K (6:25/mi) in mid November. Splits were 6:11, 6:18, 6:32, 6:52, 6:50, so I came out the gate a little too fast.

Any advice for me other than try to pace myself better next time? The last 2 miles were pretty tough

WW

Nice Race! you're getting real close to your goal. Did you go out a little hot, maybe but we're only talking 15 sec over goal pace so I wouldn't worry over that. if you blasted a 5:45 then its something to reel in. How hard were the first 3 and then how hard were the last 2? You still have another month to put it solid training and peak for mid nov race day. I see on strava you routinely run 2-3 race pace miles. start adding distance. Try Treadmill half mile repeats@ 6-6:15 pace with 1/4 mile recovery at 8min. by nov temps should also be 10+ cooler so that will help a little.
I know there were some pretty fast guys out for that race. Friend from BR ran 5:40 pace and was 5th.

BRM may be able to chime in with some hot tips since he's banging out 5:00 miles like candy.

Thank you for all of this info! First 3 were good, last 2 were very tough I’d say. Hadn’t battled like that mentally on a run in quite some time (I guess since last in-person race in March?). I feel encouraged with my result, as I’ve only averaged ~15 mpw for the past 8-10 weeks with the tri training. Now time to up the mileage with Tri season ending.

I will start adding distance to those tempo runs like you said and am getting back to the interval work next week after my Tri this coming weekend. Appreciate your suggestion on the specific pacing with those repeats, can’t wait to try em out.

You are 100% right on the field. There were some real horses out there. Guy who won it set the course record at 4:51/mile

Thanks BRM

Hey, no problem and make it your own if you decide to give it a shot. I was basically describing it exactly how I'd do it. We all know that there is no one size fits all when it comes to training

6@8:30/mi tonight

Yeah. Sucked.

5 miles negative split 8:30 down to 7:50

I’m starting to feel pretty good now that I am working in some tempo runs and long intervals. I’m not really doing any long runs, and instead am doing regular time trials/races instead, so we will see how that works out. I’m running about 5.5 hours a week, so hopefully that is enough for some fall 5ks.