{"id":40,"date":"2008-08-30T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/?p=40"},"modified":"2008-08-30T17:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T17:16:00","slug":"marathon-week-10-day-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/30\/marathon-week-10-day-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Marathon Week 10, Day 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was our biggest test so far. Run a half-marathon distance (13.1 miles) at our targeted marathon paces. About 20 of us met at Kersting Ct. this morning at 7:00am to run the course that Murray plotted for us<\/a>. The devilish thing about the route was the hundreds of feet of elevation gain from 1.3 miles in until the five-mile mark. Nadir volunteered to carry our supplies to the high point of our run, and each one of us was relieved finally to see him, crunching out his sit-ups, when we crested the last hill on the way to him.<\/p>\n

My target was 7:37 per mile, which gave me a goal of completion in 1:40:00. I fell behind my pace on some of the uphill stints, but the long descent down El Molino Ave. let me make up all of it. I even got far enough ahead of pace that I was able to finish on schedule despite a seeming wall that we had to climb 11.5 miles in.<\/p>\n

A scary sign: Kary was our second helper, and she was stationed at the 10-mile point. I knew she was going to be there, I was looking for her, and no crowds were around… but I would have missed her if she had not yelled out to me as I zipped by. Fatigue, of course, was the main factor, but I am going to blame this one on the fact that I did not wear contact lenses for the run.<\/p>\n

Final result: I finished in 1:38:00, two minutes ahead of schedule. While I am so happy with that result, I know I could not have kept it up any longer than these 13.1 miles. On marathon day, in two and a half months, I will have to do what I did today… and then do it all over again right away. I tell myself that I can trust the training because I could not have come anywhere close<\/em> to today’s performance two and a half months ago.<\/p>\n

Note on upcoming training: Next week seems to be a lighter week, perhaps as a follow-up to this more intense week of running. Our mid-tempo day is only four miles long, and only two of those miles are faster than “easy tempo” pace. And I can’t believe I am saying this, but… Saturday’s long-tempo run is “only” ten miles. (And we do<\/em> get to run it at marathon-pace +30 seconds.)<\/p>\n

\u2026but there is<\/em> a double-5K stuck in there for Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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