re: Official Running Log/Marathon Training Thread

Ran a race in the teens back in April, that was cold lol

Feel decent, haven’t started getting geared up yet. Trying to relax a couple more hours then head out!

Well I figured I’d go out too fast and crash and burn, and that’s what happened lol

If anybody follows that dude Tommy Rivs on IG (good follow), it looks like he won the LV Marathon. Animal.

And yeah c’mon hb —- you gotta give us more than that! Obvious judge free zone here.

Edit -- Duuude - saw your result in Strava. Good stuff.

Damn BnG that sucks dude. I worry that I won’t take an injury serious when one hits. Like this ankle pain I’ve been dealing with off and on. It’s not anything that will cause me to stop a run or anything... yet. It’s like when do you cash it in and bite the bullet? Did you go to an Ortho or what? Oh and your wife sounds about like mine. Couldn’t be bothered with my running feats/issues.

I got in 6.1 this am/7:52 pace. Turned into a tempo run. Wanted a little more distance and was feeling amazing, but got hit with rain/wind around mile 5. Been feeling a possible cold coming on, so played it safe.

Loving running in the Escalante. I can definitely feel a positive difference in cadence/economy. Think I may break them out this Saturday at the Big Easy. Never raced in them before.

I saw he got 7/200 in his age group. Killed it.

Also, hb — I noticed on Strava that you haven’t been running much more than 25-30 mpw? That’s insane.

this was your first marathon? if so, you could easily qualify for Boston

I took 28 minutes off from my 1st to 2nd

You should definitely run another in the coming months. I dont know if my body can ever physically come close to going sub 3. Awesome to be that close on your first. Maybe look to a coach to help you through the taper. Theres an art to it. I agree 4 weeks is long. It's different for everyone, but I've done a race on 4 weeks due to my primary race getting cancelled the week before and it sucked. My races with a coach looking over what I'm doing in the last few weeks always had me feeling great on race day. I say that as someone who is skipping the coaching route for now, but realizes the benefit.

Today was 16.1 miles in 50 degree drizzle. As much a mental workout as it was physical. But it's one of those days where you have a huge sense of accomplishment knowing that you got out there and did it even though the conditions were horrible and you could have just skipped. Taking the rest of my day off to drink beer and watch TV, Haha.

I did have a question about start groups/corrals? I honestly don't remember when I signed up if I had to put expected time or when I wanted to start.

I'm guessing the starts aren't random? I was in one of the last yellow group corrals, starting at 5:45pm. Just felt like the first 3 miles I was dodging and weaving through women in tutus, people in costumes, walkers and people stopping to take selfies every 2 minutes.

Not that it would have made a difference, but just felt it took me a while to get a good pace having to swerve alot.