re: Official Running Log/Marathon Training Thread

6.25m at 10.45pace

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Am I reading it right that 19:58 won the men's 5k and 42:10 won the 10k?

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Yep. Most everyone was more interested in the beer and the wiener dog races. It was fun.

I don’t think it’s exact, but it’s typically in the ballpark. It’s also predicting an overall perfect race. Lots of external factors can blow that up.

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My Garmin keeps dropping my race predictions and it's getting to the point where I think it's overly optimistic. It's predicting a 1:37 half right now and I haven't even begun a training block. I'm just doing base runs (and maybe a little tempo here and there) and it drops the predictions a few seconds each time. I don't know how their algorithm works but I think it's busted.

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It's almost worse for me - my vo2 max is now dropping because I've stopped doing speed work and it's gotten hot outside again. My predictions are way off and my vo2 max has dropped a point, yet I'm pretty sure I could go out and set a PR in the Marathon right now, and a pretty significant one at that. It is what it is, I like to use Garmin as a "general idea" but it's far from perfect.


P.S: My comment from yesterday might make it look like I struggled yesterday - I did not struggle yesterday, it was very easy to me and I actually hurt way less than I was expecting after the 50 miles. That being said, I felt the need to call out the race director for putting "not very hilly" in his race description but then had a Marathon with 2,313ft of Elevation Gain.

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Was that the BHAM 26.2?

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Yes, terrible, absolutely terrible. I love pacing, but when I'm handing out more electrolyte tabs than actually pushing people along something isn't right with the race

Glad I skipped that one. The beer run in Cullman was way more fun.

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Ideas for blisters on feet during training?

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my entire small toe on my left foot was a blister. It took 4 days and about 14 pops to get it all the way down, so amazing

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On a serious note and answer - Pop them with a needle and drain them completely and either let them dry out or put moleskin on it: moleskin

ETA: the blister will heal and if you are lucky the excess skin will reattach and create a stronger part on your feet (a foot callus)

Last night I got moved up to be the 4:00 pacer for 7 Bridges in Chatanooga... so instead of pushing a lot of miles for the next 2 weeks, I'm now tapering for an actual Marathon in 2 weeks - life is crazy, but I've dreamed of pacing the 4:00 group for a long time, so I'm going with it.

It's not a conventional training plan, but I get so much more excited about Marathons than I have been for Tunnel Hill - I'm just going to have fun now, if I can sub-24 hour at Tunnel Hill so be it, but it's time to have some fun this training cycle.

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What about using runner's tape? I'm gonna try out the moleskin and tape.

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I have never tried runners tape (I'm assuming you are talking about KT Tape?) for anything other than joint / muscle support. I've used moleskin and know how well it works, so it is what I recommend. Just experience and my friend's experience (which is how I learned about it)

Intervals today, 9 400m intervals @ 5:30 average. The cool air is soooo nice. I'm into taper for the marathon now that everything has changed, will do 7 miles of marathon pace on Saturday for my long run

5.3 @ 8:50. Mostly zone 2.

This week has been hell at work and was supposed to be my taper week into sprint tri on Saturday. 600m/20mile/5k. Tonight was my only workout.

Any tips for a first time tri? Thx.