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November 16, 2004

Itty bitty progress

So I shaved off another 8 seconds from my two-mile time trial to a 12:12. I wasn't sure at first if I had taken anything off; it was dark and I have a tendency to hit the split button on my watch when I'm done rather than the stop button. So I waited until we got back to the store to check my splits. I was pretty consistent again: I stayed between 1:28 and 1:34 on my splits, and I think the two 1:34s were due to my hitting the split button late.

I'm happy with 8 seconds. It's actually a pretty big 8 seconds according to McMillan. That !@#$ calculator still says I'm capable of running a slower marathon than I've already done (except now it's down to 3:13.) BUT ... it predicts a 5K 10 seconds faster than one I ran five months before my last marathon pr, and a 10-miler about 20 seconds faster than the 10-miler I did four months before that marathon pr. The predicted half-marathon time is slower than the half I did that year, though, but that half came after my Christmas mini-break. So I'm faster on the short end this time around, which will hopefully translate to even faster times on the long end. I know my endurance is good!

I just need that big improvement I saw last time after my Christmas mini-break and I'll be set ...

Posted by jenandmats at November 16, 2004 10:05 PM

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The McMillan calculator is always interesting, sometimes bizarrely so. I guess now we can ask him about it too - saw him and Gilbert out running the trail last week, which was pretty cool. Anyway, are you doing Motive on Sunday? And - if you did it before - what correlation did you see between those times and your 3M times? Just curious.

Posted by: Richard at November 17, 2004 9:20 AM

Hey Richard, I am doing Motive; Steve wants us to do marathon goal pace there. I'm not sure I'm ready for that but I'm going to give it a shot. I have a feeling I'm going to have to make up a lot of ground once I get out of the hills (so it's going to be more along the lines of running conservatively, pushing through hills, and then running my tushie off to make up time.)

I ran it two years ago and my pace there ended up being my marathon pace three months later. I didn't actually race it that year, though; I did pretty much what I'm planning to do this weekend. The weather that year was great, too.

Posted by: jenandmats at November 17, 2004 8:17 PM