The_Man
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Nigel - good to see you. Thanks for that Athlinks tip. Pretty cool.
Ned - here are a few of my best race tips. Don't worry about where you start, since it's chip timing. In fact, starting a little further back might help you go out a little slower, which is really what you want to do. Drink at least 20 oz. of water two hours before the race and then stop drinking. Bring a pair of throwaway sweats, wear them until the gun goes off and then throw them away.
Workhorse - good luck on the job. I switched jobs about a month ago and it has made a dramatic impact on my quality of life.
PSL - great work on the stalking. I'm a big 405 fan.
IvanK - great approach on easing back into the training and speedwork. I'm with you on doing whatever it takes to not get hurt.
Darrin - welcome back! Congrats on the clean bill of health.
Prosopis - that weather sounds great. Just stick with the plan and you'll be amazed at how it builds your endurance. The way I look at it, you can probably already run several miles at your goal HM pace. So you have sufficient speed - now it's just a matter of being able to sustain that speed for the duration of the race. That's what all those long slow miles do.
Wraith and Grue - good luck this weekend. Grue, I think you're going sub-3 and will win the race. Wraith, this is the marathon where you bring it all together. Just stay patient, don't chase it early on or lose confidence in yourself, and you will finish very strong.
I had a couple of unscheduled rest days (one of which I'll make up tomorrow) and then got back out there today. The rest seems to have done me well, because after about a half-mile of running, my legs actually rejoined my body for the first time since the marathon. I don't know where they've been, and they headed back to that place after only a couple of miles, but it was great to see them while it lasted. I'm hoping they'll come back again this weekend and maybe stay a little bit longer this time!
At any rate, I was able to get in 4 miles at 8:23 pace, which is a big improvement from the 5 at 9:30 pace I could manage on Sunday. The best part was that my HR for that pace was pretty much in line with what I was doing in the weeks before the marathon. So, as bad as my legs have felt and as little as I've run since then, I seem to have held onto most of my conditioning. If I can get through November just hanging onto my pre-race fitness, I'll look at doing some speedwork in December, and then pick up my next marathon training cycle after the New Year.
Ned - here are a few of my best race tips. Don't worry about where you start, since it's chip timing. In fact, starting a little further back might help you go out a little slower, which is really what you want to do. Drink at least 20 oz. of water two hours before the race and then stop drinking. Bring a pair of throwaway sweats, wear them until the gun goes off and then throw them away.
Workhorse - good luck on the job. I switched jobs about a month ago and it has made a dramatic impact on my quality of life.
PSL - great work on the stalking. I'm a big 405 fan.
IvanK - great approach on easing back into the training and speedwork. I'm with you on doing whatever it takes to not get hurt.
Darrin - welcome back! Congrats on the clean bill of health.
Prosopis - that weather sounds great. Just stick with the plan and you'll be amazed at how it builds your endurance. The way I look at it, you can probably already run several miles at your goal HM pace. So you have sufficient speed - now it's just a matter of being able to sustain that speed for the duration of the race. That's what all those long slow miles do.
Wraith and Grue - good luck this weekend. Grue, I think you're going sub-3 and will win the race. Wraith, this is the marathon where you bring it all together. Just stay patient, don't chase it early on or lose confidence in yourself, and you will finish very strong.
I had a couple of unscheduled rest days (one of which I'll make up tomorrow) and then got back out there today. The rest seems to have done me well, because after about a half-mile of running, my legs actually rejoined my body for the first time since the marathon. I don't know where they've been, and they headed back to that place after only a couple of miles, but it was great to see them while it lasted. I'm hoping they'll come back again this weekend and maybe stay a little bit longer this time!
At any rate, I was able to get in 4 miles at 8:23 pace, which is a big improvement from the 5 at 9:30 pace I could manage on Sunday. The best part was that my HR for that pace was pretty much in line with what I was doing in the weeks before the marathon. So, as bad as my legs have felt and as little as I've run since then, I seem to have held onto most of my conditioning. If I can get through November just hanging onto my pre-race fitness, I'll look at doing some speedwork in December, and then pick up my next marathon training cycle after the New Year.
Sounds like a great plan. Just got to remember to stick to it! Remember - plan the race, then race the plan. I think you are going to nail it.
Sorry for the Look at Me posting. It just makes me even happier about getting out. I love the fact that if I had stayed, I would have very shortly stopped accruing leave time and started losing it. But by leaving, I get it all cashed out.Among other things, this means I now have absolutely no excuse for not sending in my Bourbon Chase check yet, which I will mail tomorrow.
I never saw that before - just read the first post and I was rolling.
aside from him totally missing the point, the commentary was mildly amusing.20k today, listened to T.E. Lawrence's 
. This is exactly what I needed. I went back to the same spot I've been running for my past 3 long runs and felt fantastic. With the way my body went off a cliff last week, I decided to carry a 2nd Gu with me and adjust my fueling strategy. Prior to this, I was drinking a 12oz gatorade and eating a Gu at 5mi. Today I took half the gatorade and 1 Gu at 4mi and then the 2nd half of gatorade and another Gu at 8. Thinking this might be a bit of overkill, but all I know is I felt fantastic the entire way through. I'm not quite sure this is what I'll do next week, but we'll see...At the 9mi mark my legs had a ton of drive left in them, so I opened up my stride a bit to see what my final 3 would be to give me a tiny clue as to what I could expect for the final 5k next week. Since I'm going to go with the 5-5-5 plan next week, I wanted to know what I may have left for the final 5k push. I didn't press it hard, but it was probably a 70%-ish effort. 9:00, 8:46, 8:51 for 26:37. Very happy with that and feel like a 1:55 HM is well within my grasp next week. 
