Marathoner's Unite!
This morning was by far the most positive day of training I have had since I started the marathon prep. I met up with Ben, Casey, Chris, Ian, Matt, Pat, and Terry at the memorial bridge for a 10 mile tempo at 5:22 pace. It was nice to be working out with a bunch of sub 2:20 guys just to talk about their training and get some ideas. I don't know why we don't get totgether more often, maybe that will be the goal for the next marathon we are all training for. I felt great the whole way and could have run faster or slower with no problem. The weather was picture perfect and we got the work in just before the masses of the walk for (fill in disease here) got going. We did a five mile warm-up and cool down to give us twenty on the workout. Here is the data. It won't make much sense because the marks were hard to see and I missed some and got some late but the just of it should be pretty clear.
.5 2:49
2 10:54
2.5 2:34 13:29
3.0 2:41 16:10
4.0 5:17 21:27
5.0 5:18 26:46
( 8 seconds to turn around)
6.0 (Missed split)
7.0 10:41 37:45
8.0 5:19 42:56
9.0 5:24 48:20
10 5:24 53:45
This evening I did a 6 mile shake-out just to get the 26 mile distance in. I do believe my body is finally hardening to the volume I have been doing the past couple weeks. Felt very easy.
Today was separation saturday which made it a great college football day. So great that Umass vs. Villinova was on Comcast 3. The minute had a great ground game today and just ran it down nova's throat for four quarters and ended up winning 31 - 21 but it didn't really seem that close. Umass had a huge ball control advantage and ran a lot more plays from scrimage.
They are ranked 9 in the Div 1-AA and took their first A-10 conference game. Let's hope they can keep it rolling.
That's all I got.