I wonder just how much sub-3 you'll bite off on this next attempt.

 

Hopefully 10 minutes and 1 second.  I will be over the moon with a 2:49:59, but to be honest anything under 3 hours will be fantastic. 

 

The assault on the rest of the PRs will have to wait until after the end of April.  It starts with a flat city centre 10k in May.  Hoping to take at least 2 mins off my PR.

 

I have just seen Jordiro's pacing... wow.  As DoppleBock said "a thing of beauty".  That is a stunning piece of running in anyone's book.

Wow, lots of great racing over weekend. Congrats especially to new graduates jordirio and T1Dawk!

 

I see a very good chance for a positive surprise from you. I think you are going to like the Napa Valley course.

 

Have a great run. Jim 

  

Thanks, and good luck with the recovery. I ran 3:13:32. I think maybe I had a sub-3:10 in me, but after the potty stop at mile 14 I was content to just finish comfortably under 3:15. It was a beautiful course, and the weather was perfect. Given that I'm up 15 pounds from last year's sub-3 at Boston, I'm pretty happy I could throw down a 3:13 in a casual outing.

 

I was inspired by Marathon Maniacs cofounder Chris Warren, who ran a 2-minute PR 2:49:58 in his 175th marathon (incidentally exactly tying Maniacs' president Steve Yee's PR). What's really inspiring about this is that Chris went about 5 years between sub-3s, until getting back into form last summer, at age 40. Obviously his current training (a combination of Pfitzinger, "Run Faster", and training with very fast women) is working very well for him.

Purdey, I just checked your log. Are these your real PR's at these distances? For real???

 

Like, you've never run a marathon faster than 3:43, or a half faster than 1:27? If so, you are so ready to smash those PRs.

 

Personal Records

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Your personal records, often referred to as "PRs", consist of your best time for races of a given distance. Below is the list of your PRs automatically generated from the race results you entered.

Distance Time Pace Event Date   5 km 19:14 6:12 Wilton 5km 3/1/2009 10 km 38:25 6:11 Oxford Town & Gown 5/17/2009 10 Mi 59:35 5:58 City of Salisbury 10 Mile Road Race 3/7/2010 Half Marathon 1:27:08 6:40 Downton Half Marathon 11/30/2008 Marathon 3:43:00 8:31 Clarendon Marathon 10/5/2008 50 Mi 7:47:00 9:21 Thames Path Ultra 1/17/2009 75.8 Mi 12:00:00 9:30 Crawley 12hr track ultra 4/4/2009 91.7 Mi 24:00:00 15:43 Sri Chinmoy Self Transcendence 24hr race 10/17/2009

 

Dakota - yes those are correct.  I hadn't raced a conventional distance since May 2009 (which was a disappointing 10k, but still a PR).  From then until Oct it was all about ultras (and still is, deep down).  My PRs are very soft, well... apart from the 10 mi PR!  Note:  the marathon PR was a point-to-point cross country marathon with a significant overall elevation gain - I could probably only run it in 3:15 - 3:20 at the moment - it is a very hard course.

 

I am probably in shape to run a 1:20ish half and maybe a 2:50 at the moment.  But my training has not been great and now I've come down with a horrendous cold, just when I should be maxing out my training for the marathon.

Marathons are getting crazy - Closing way too soon!

 

Out little marathon in Milwaukee Oct 3rd - Already has the relay closed out and 1000 out of 2700 runners.  It used to not close out at all (About 3-4 years ago) - Now I would guess it will be closed by end of May.

 

I ran it in 2005

 

signed up in 2007-2009 and did not run (Injury in 07 and chose to run something else in 09)

 

I am 50-60% likely to run it this year -

Congratulations to jordirio and T1dawk for well-run sub3's. 

 

 

With a sub-60 10miler Purdey has shown how to train for these things.  Damm impressive. I'm gonna have to go study that training log to get some ideas for next cycle (as if I don't know what's gonna be in there - run LOTS!).

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I ran a 10miler this past weekend in a disappointing 64:30.  I felt like I was in better shape than  the 62:53 I did back in January but it just didn't happen for me.  The Jan race was in perfect conditions and this one was only slightly worse but my performance was significantly worse.  No excuses as I felt pretty good before and even during the race.    Sometimes it's just not your day.  Last tune-up race for me before Boston is the Across the Bay 12K on March 21.   This will be a train-through race so not expecting a great time there.

 

Chin up

 

Like you said there could be lots of reasons

 

I really do not put much weight on 1 data point

 

Last year I ran 1:24:04 half marathon - 5 weeks before I ran a 2:48:10 marathon - I should have been able to run a 1:21 something - Not a big deal - It really counts at the marathon ... then its "Show time"

ksrunr, very possible.  Those track races kinda messed with my timing a little.  I hate having to choose between the races I want to run.  I guess I have to accept that if I run too many races, none will be optimum and either adjust my expectations or push away from the race smorgasboard.   The track races were the day before the tempo miles so for sure those two days were far from ideal.  I believe I would have gotten in some more properly spaced workouts if not for that.  Anyway, the track series is over so I can add in some helpful workouts to get me ready for Boston.

Up next 

 

Gopher Ryan - 03/21/10  LA Marathon, Los Angelos, CA

johnmaas - 03/21/10 Shamrock Marathon, Viginia Beach, VA

 

 

Gentelmen - How are you feeling ?

 

 One week to go.

Pros: 

• Training cycle had 8 runs of 20 or more miles, 6 of them well-executed fast finish long runs.
• 8 weeks of training averaged 50 miles/week and 5 weeks were 68 miles/week.
• Managed to get my weight down to 149, as it was back up to 158 in December.

Cons:

• Most of the miles were on a treadmill.  I'm starting to question my level of fitness, now that I've run outdoors finally.  It sometimes feels like it is more work for a given pace.
• Got a chest cold this past week.
• Right shin splint pain has come on it the past two weeks (so much for shin splints being a "beginner" injury).
• No benchmark races to compare for "projected" performance.

 

It's probably just taper madness setting in.  I'm fine.

John