3 Days!

Okay, I am kind of psyched for the half marathon. My runs have been going great. I was going to do a 3-miler tonight, but I decided against it. Now that I am writing, part of me is tempted. But I think I will do it in the morning. My 11 mile run went great, and I really like my strategy idea. It might not work, but I know I will finish.

I am going to try to keep a 9:00/M pace through the race, but I have a different set of tactics. I am going to keep track of 3-mile splits, not mile splits. I'll see how close to 27:00 I can keep the 3-mile splits--this worked great for the Crim last year. Also, I am employing 90% walk strategy, something I didn't do for the Crim. I was at a higher level of fitness then, so I think I need this run/walk/run strategy. Doing the math, this means 24 four-minute-thirty-second runs, followed by thirty seconds of rest. Should be doable.

When I finished my 3-miler last night, I used this strategy dead nuts on. I felt like I could do it 3 or 4 more times. We'll see how it works in practice.

Martian Medal... Cooooool!

Gotta be the coolest race medal, ever!

Turned a Corner...

Okay, so I switched to the half and I feel pretty good. My knee has really improved. I had my best run in months on Monday night--9 miles with no walk breaks, and no knee pain. Awesome. Just got back from a 3-miler with the planned ratio for the race: 4:30/:30, which is 90% running. Felt great. Did the 3 miles in 26:51, just below 9:00/M with plenty of gas.

I plan to do the following before the race:

THU 3/24 - 5 mi
SAT 3/26 - 11 mi
MON 3/28 - 3 mi
WED 3/30 - 5 mi
THU 3/31 - 3 mi
SAT 4/2 - RACE (13.1 mi)

Should be great.

4/2/2011

Ok, there are three options:

1. Switch to the half marathon
2. Run the first half of the full marathon and bag it/walk the rest
3. See if you can run with Townes at the 11:20 pace; that might still be okay

I'll have to think about this. Just ran 3 and did fine. Gonna try:
3/4/3/8
3/5/3/10
5/3/3/Race