{"id":59,"date":"2008-07-04T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/?p=59"},"modified":"2008-07-04T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T16:13:00","slug":"marathon-week-2-day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelkeating.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/04\/marathon-week-2-day-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Marathon Week 2, Day 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Five Miles at Mid-Tempo Pace<\/h2>\n<p>I saved a half gallon of gas and got an extra hour of sleep by staying in Pasadena for my five-mile mid-tempo run this morning (rather than meeting the 6:00am group at the Middle School).<\/p>\n<p>Following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapmyrun.com\/run\/united-states\/ca\/pasadena\/183031469607\">a Pasadena route<\/a> (why doesn\u2019t it let me print for free?!!), I set out to maintain a 7:10 per-mile pace, which should have had me finishing at the 35:50 mark. There are some elevation changes in the route, but despite these, I was able to hold the 7:10 pace pretty closely both on the uphill portions and on the level parts. On top of that, I allowed myself to open up a little on the downhill stretches, which brought my finish time down to 34:07.<\/p>\n<p>Notes from the run:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The start challenged me. Heading to my starting point, I was nowhere near feeling like I had the energy to do this one today, but I went through with it anyway, taking about 400m to dial in my pace. About a half mile in, I felt much better. The 800m repeats earlier in the week did not make this first half-mile easy, they did help convince me I could put in nine more of them to finish the run.<\/li>\n<li>About 3.5 miles in, my quads started getting a little too warm, but that cleared up by Mile 4.<\/li>\n<li>So far in the training, I have hit all of my target times, but I am not about to change my marathon goal of 3:20:00 yet! Reassess sometime after Week 6, not after Week 2.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Congratulations to all of the CrossFit\/Bootcamp racers today in the Bleksmith 5K!<\/p>\n<p>On schedule for Saturday: A 6-mile group run from Kersting Court at 8:22 per mile. It will be interesting to add more than a minute over today&#8217;s pace to each mile of the run.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Miles at Mid-Tempo Pace I saved a half gallon of gas and got an extra hour of sleep by staying in Pasadena for my five-mile mid-tempo run this morning (rather than meeting the 6:00am group at the Middle School). 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