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Friday, November 30, 2012

Trail of Fears

Today I ran 0 miles but I signed up for the Trail of Fears run in December put on by the running club I'm in (RunItFast). It's a 4.3 mile course and you have an hour to finish each loop. So if you finish in 43 minutes, you have 17 to rest before the next loop starts. If you finish in 59 minutes, you have 1 minute to rest. If you don't finish in an hour - you are done.

Without knowing much about the course, my goal is to run most of the day. Because of work I can really only run all day Saturday, not into the night and maybe next day as the winner surely will. A rough goal is to make it more than the distance of the Strolling Jim (41.2 miles). It seems doable based on my pace in the Strolling Jim.



Thursday, November 29, 2012

20.3 Miles: A long run



Today I ran 20.3 miles. It was a good run. I didn't push the pace but it was decent for a non-specific 20 mile run. It was good weather day is it was sunny but cool.  This is my favorite type of run. I set out to do a long run with no goal for distance, time or direction. I just go run for a few hours.


Wednesday, November 28, 2012

7.2 Lazy miles around town



Today I ran 7.2 miles around town. It was just an easy paced run with a few walking breaks to deal with work emails. The plan is to do a longer run tomorrow or over the weekend. I'll be adding pictures to the Florida run today.


Saturday, November 24, 2012

5.8 Miles: Barefoot beach run. (Friday)

(Photo at the turn around point 3.4)

Yesterday I ran 5.8 miles barefoot on the beach. It was awesome. I ran right along the water's edge and at times in the water. I felt good and strong.  The distance was define by reaching the end of the barrier island. 

Running on the beach is harder but since I wasn't going that far and I'm in good running shape this run was no problem.


(Photo from around mile 1 looking North)

3.3 miles (Thursday): Florida run



Thursday I did my first run post marathon. My legs were fine (likely since I didn't really get to push them during the marathon). I would have run Wednesday but we were traveling to Florida for my wife's Marathon on Sunday.

This was a good short run. 


26.2 miles: Rookie mistake (11/18)

It turns out in a month's time, I have run my fastest marathon ever and my slowest ever (this one in 4:55). 

Sunday I went 26.2 miles in the Philly Marathon. The first 6 miles were fine and I was on track pace wise. However, from there my stomach started to hurt. It only slowed me a little bit at first but it got fairly bad by mile 16 or so. I had to walk at times during the last 8 and wait in a line for a porta-potty (that cost me a few minutes). I was slightly worried I would have to walk the last few miles. I was only able to run for tens of yards at a time before my stomach hurt too much and I was reduced to walking.

I'm not 100% sure of the cause but the leading candidate is the Gatorade I had during the race. It has caused me problems in the past but I just wasn't thinking in the race when I had some. I think I was thinking I just didn't like it, not that it would cause me problems. The rookie mistake was eating or drinking something new in a race that I didn't use in training. This is one of the first rules of running. It's possible the Gatorade was not the problem but I need a scapegoat and Gatorade is a good one.

 I'll likely run the Philly Marathon again, I'm not sure at this point it will be next year. 

Thursday, November 15, 2012

2.5 miles: Last run before Marathon

Today I ran 2.5 miles.  Simple last run. The Philly Marathon forecast for now is a starting temperature in the lower 40's going up to the 50's with a small chance of rain. I'll take it.

Marathon goals:

1) Beating my time from last year- 4:40:52
2) Beating my time from 7 Bridges Marathon- 4:31:28

I should be able to beat the first goal assuming no problems, meaning from a fitness stand point I'm on track. The second goal will be a bit harder. I don't feel like I am in any better shape than I was in a month ago and that day I had a very good running day. Those are not always repeatable on demand. I'll be happy with goal 1 and thrilled with goal two.

So no slower than a 10:42 per mile pace down to about a 10:21 pace.


Wednesday, November 14, 2012

5 miles: Town and back

This morning I did the standard 5 mile into town and back run. Good run. I'll do around a 3 mile run tomorrow and then take Friday and Saturday off before running 26.2 on Sunday.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

7.6 miles: HO HO HO

Today I ran 7.6 miles. I just had a fun run. I just went at a natural pace.  This was a bit longer than my normal taper plan would call for (4 miles) but I really don't care. I just wanted to run and so I did.




Sunday, November 11, 2012

6.1 Miles

Well the slightly longer run got cut short. I forgot how early the sun goes down now. It went well.


Friday, November 9, 2012

9.8 miles: Last longer run

(Deer at mile 1 on map below)

Today I ran 9.8 miles. It was a good run. I didn't push it but didn't go slow either. This was the last longer run before the marathon. I may do a 7.5 on Sunday and then taper next week.



5 Miles (Monday and Wednesday)

Early this week I did a short 5 mile run on two different days. It's part taper but mainly I got backed up with work.

Saturday, November 3, 2012

4.6: Friday fun run

Yesterday I ran 4.6 miles. This run was limited again by work. However, I should be cutting back a bit on miles away so I guess it was fine. It was a good run. I didn't push it since the last few runs have been in high gear.  Taking the weekend off, both to rest and because I'm on full time kid duty.


Thursday, November 1, 2012

5 miles: Running is going well

Today I ran into town and back. The standard Starbuck's run. My running is going very well right now. I ran 20 yesterday and was stuck in 4th gear in today's fast run. My legs are feeling fine. I wish I had more time to run even more but maybe it's good that I don't right now.