September 18, 2011 8am
The following is an excerpt from my training log:
Race
splits:
mile 1 4:58 felt relaxed, but fast... tons of people ahead and behind, easy to draft, easy to move around
mile 2 5:05 settled in… let the massive group get away
mile 3 5:09 trying to find rhythm… running solo or maybe with 1 other guy, running good lines
mile 4 5:06 top ladies caught up… got in a better groove
mile 5 5:04 hanging with ladies (+10 other guys!)
mile 6 5:11 fell away from group (quads began tying up.. flooding with lactate…way early)
mile 7 5:12 slowly melted off off group
mile 8 5:16.5 struggling
mile 9 5:25 really struggled, although there was a slight uphill before two 90 degree turns and a bridge
mile 10 5:15 downhill mile, started to feel better
mile 11 5:10 got in a good groove, trying to embrace “the suck”, which it did
mile 12 5:15 still fighting
mile 13 5:24.5 got my ass kicked… legs ran out of juice. heart rate too high; not my day.
last .1 :35
splits:
mile 1 4:58 felt relaxed, but fast... tons of people ahead and behind, easy to draft, easy to move around
mile 2 5:05 settled in… let the massive group get away
mile 3 5:09 trying to find rhythm… running solo or maybe with 1 other guy, running good lines
mile 4 5:06 top ladies caught up… got in a better groove
mile 5 5:04 hanging with ladies (+10 other guys!)
mile 6 5:11 fell away from group (quads began tying up.. flooding with lactate…way early)
mile 7 5:12 slowly melted off off group
mile 8 5:16.5 struggling
mile 9 5:25 really struggled, although there was a slight uphill before two 90 degree turns and a bridge
mile 10 5:15 downhill mile, started to feel better
mile 11 5:10 got in a good groove, trying to embrace “the suck”, which it did
mile 12 5:15 still fighting
mile 13 5:24.5 got my ass kicked… legs ran out of juice. heart rate too high; not my day.
last .1 :35
gun time 1:08:13 chip time 1:08:11
today was a 7 out of 10. I wanted to run a full 90 seconds faster, but i’m proud of the way i continued to fight. heart was funny, maybe some arrhythmia around the 8-10 mile marks of race.. would have been interesting to see a monitor (but i hate wearing those during races) felt OK on warmdown. Another thing that strikes me is in training during tempo runs, my first mile is always my slowest. I think running that first mile fast is fine, but I think I'd be more ready for it if I practiced the same way.
I still feel really good about my upcoming run in Chicago. Truth be told, I haven’t felt great since Lost Lake. Lost Lake is the sort of race that can take it out of you: seeing as how i hammered the last 3 miles of the downhill there so hard, there’s probably a correlation between SORE QUADS during the race and how they felt today. Katie(my massage therapist) remarked how stiff and inflexible they were on Tuesday. I came into this race on the heels of 87 miles over the last 8 days, so although I was more rested than usual, I was really knackered from the week before. A week ago I felt really lousy at the end of my 22 mile run, so all things considered, I might even say I ran well. I can't help but think of Ryan Hall running a 1:03:53 at the NYC Half 4 weeks before running a 2:04:58 leading up to the 2011 Boston Marathon. This was not the race I am training for: Chicago is. I can't wait.
today was a 7 out of 10. I wanted to run a full 90 seconds faster, but i’m proud of the way i continued to fight. heart was funny, maybe some arrhythmia around the 8-10 mile marks of race.. would have been interesting to see a monitor (but i hate wearing those during races) felt OK on warmdown. Another thing that strikes me is in training during tempo runs, my first mile is always my slowest. I think running that first mile fast is fine, but I think I'd be more ready for it if I practiced the same way.
I still feel really good about my upcoming run in Chicago. Truth be told, I haven’t felt great since Lost Lake. Lost Lake is the sort of race that can take it out of you: seeing as how i hammered the last 3 miles of the downhill there so hard, there’s probably a correlation between SORE QUADS during the race and how they felt today. Katie(my massage therapist) remarked how stiff and inflexible they were on Tuesday. I came into this race on the heels of 87 miles over the last 8 days, so although I was more rested than usual, I was really knackered from the week before. A week ago I felt really lousy at the end of my 22 mile run, so all things considered, I might even say I ran well. I can't help but think of Ryan Hall running a 1:03:53 at the NYC Half 4 weeks before running a 2:04:58 leading up to the 2011 Boston Marathon. This was not the race I am training for: Chicago is. I can't wait.
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