Another PF Chang 1/2 Marathon Race Report (Seeking Advice) (Read 588 times)

Wow, that is a FAST last 2.9 miles!!! But I'm just a beginner so I'll leave the advice up to the experts on here

pegasus: It will help the more experienced runners analyze your question if you make your log public so they can see your training that led up to your race. I don't have much to add other than to say: nice race.

It's entirely possible to pull off what you did. As to what pace to run.... That's tricky, and dependent on training.

pegasus: It will help the more experienced runners analyze your question if you make your log public so they can see your training that led up to your race. I don't have much to add other than to say: nice race.

Thanks. Unfortunately, the only log or record that I have is in both Garmin and Sportracks. My understanding is Eric is in the process writing a program that will allow runners to import this data, so I have held off starting the RA log. If this will help, and may not be clearly enough information, I tried adapting the "Training Intensities Based on (what I thought) Current VDOT" out of Daniels' Running formula. Based on my last full Marathon "1/2" marathon split I came up with a VDOT of about 41. The reason I didn't use the the full marathon time as a gauge was that I bonked @ mile 21. My average mpw for the last 3 months was 35-42 running 5-6 days a week. During the last 2 months I had gotten in 2- 14 mile runs and 2-16 mile runs for long runs, run every other week. The pace for those: 9:20-9:50. The other week my sorta long run was 10 miles. The pace for those: 8:45-9:15. Also, every week I would run 2-6 milers. One of them I ran at my EL pace of about 9:30-9:50. The other one I would run 2 miles @ my EL pace, then 2 miles @ 8:00-8:10 pace and run the last 2 @ EL pace. My other two run days were 4-5 mile runs. One run @ EL pace and the other @ about 8:45-8:50 pace.