re: Official Running Log/Marathon Training Thread

Wasn’t comparing 5 miles to phone call breaks. It was a joke. Running 13 at pace without stopping I think is pretty damn good reality check. Life happens but some of his runs have 20+ minute stoppage time.

I used a run stroller exactly one time. The roads were bad where we lived when we started our family and I thought my daughter would have shaken baby syndrome if I kept going after the first mile, so that was that.

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Never done a marathon myself but running/racing a half at your goal MP seems to be a staple in a bunch of the plans I've looked at. Probably not a bad idea

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A lot of plans actually have your racing a HM - actually a bit faster than your Marathon Pace. For instance my goal is around a 7:30ish pace for the marathon, I should have gone out to a HM during this training cycle and attempted a 1:30 half (7:00ish pace). I ended up missing that window due to kids activities and needing to be around on the weekends instead of being off at a race.

Every weekend the last 3 weeks and the next 3 are packed full of crap I have to do, so I'm just trying to hang on til the end.

ETA: doing the HM stuff should be about 7 to 8 weeks before your Marathon - it's usually a good "boost" going into the final build cycle.

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Life happens but some of his runs have 20+ minute stoppage time

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if it's more than normal (2-3 minutes max on mid-week runs or 6-8 on long runs) it's because I did one portion of my run by myself and then waiting on someone else and instead of saving the activity I just paused it. Last Tuesday was a great example of this - at mile 6 I stopped at a Target, went inside and got some Gatorade and chilled on a bench while I waited for a friend to come join me. In all honesty I don't put any thought into my elapsed time, on my long runs I try to get back moving ASAP once I've gotten my hydration, but other than that my mid-week stuff is just time on feet to me.

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Lately I've been doing this because I run with the stroller for the first 30-40 minutes, bring him home so Mom can feed him, then go back out for another 20-30 solo. It seems like I always get stuck making a bottle or feeding the dog during that break

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There was a stretch where I could get two hours in the running stroller out of my daughter. did 14 miles with her one day when she was 23 months old. Just looked at the strava, late September, starting temp 79 degrees with a feels like of 86 so had to be pushing 90s by the time i was done. I don't know what i was thinking training for half in the summer. For that half i was training for we'd end up at a splash pad just so i could cool off. It was during that brutal 2023 summer

Did a lot of 6 miles with the dog, drop her off take the kid for the rest of the workout, and then headed to the park when I was training for the marathon.

Now I am lucky to get 30-40 minutes out of her before she is demanding to go to the park

now a days i am just getting up earlier and earlier to work out or run or else i don't have time. Crubs my beer drinking some so that's good.

Goggins saying "don't be a bitch" would be more to the point.

That's pretty much what i repeat in my head over and over when running

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Between Goggins and a couple hardcore buddies of mine, I have a pretty good mental repertoire of motivational speakers with very short and poignant sayings in that vein that keep me going sometimes.

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I just repeat in my head "you really are a dumbass, congratulations you dumbass, what are you doing?!?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!?!?!"

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all the fat beer gut softball dads waddling around

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…and screaming at the refs and other dads.

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Sorry to hear that man, I know you love that race so that's a bummer that you are going to miss it.

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It's my favorite race for sure. I could run it, but don't want to push it racing. I put in 7 miles last night and it's getting better, but not to the point of turning in a good time.

Plan on being at the bottom of Stone River where it meets Brookwood. Kid in my office says he wants to run it. Transferring my bib to him today.

13miles at 11:32 pace.
~ 10:20 pace for the first 8 then threw in some walk running for the last 4. Trying to train in the hottest part of the day to get acclimated to a June/July race.