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August 7, 2004

Marathon pace? Hahahahaha (*sigh.*)

We had decent weather this morning! Yay! Since it was an easy week I just ran 13, but we included Bonnell again, so it wasn’t necessarily “easy.” And neither was the finishing pace. Danny was keeping track of our quarters for the last mile or so and called out our per-mile pace at every marker: 6:56, 6:52, 6:40, and 6:29. Left on my own I never time anything other than intervals and some tempos. This was a good reminder of why. When he called out the 6:56 all I could think was that my goal marathon pace would be 3 seconds per mile faster than that. Sure wish I’d been more comfortable! By the last quarter I was definitely whistle-wheezing.

My plan is to remain completely (hopelessly?) optimistic until I see my Houston half results in January. If I haven’t done anything by then that indicates sub-3 is possible then I’ll re-think things. Shoot. Even then I still might go for it anyway. Until then I plan to just run happily along, keeping track of progress but stubbornly refusing to get discouraged.

Posted by jenandmats at August 7, 2004 3:46 PM

Comments

One of my favorite sayings to be cheerful to people with is simply that while you can always try to live up to your expectations, you will never fail to live down to them. I'm shooting for a massive PR at Freescale myself, using a similar theory.

Posted by: Richard at September 25, 2004 10:58 AM