Boston, Boston, Boston (Read 1248 times)

Thanks Muse! I have to say that my running mojo hasn't made much of an appearance since the marathon. It seems that despite my best intentions I can never get more than 30 miles in. I am trying to focus more on slow running but I also find it mentally hard to get over the idea that I need to train fast in order to run fast. Granted I don't have to even really think about training until August, but I had really wanted to build up my base before that. I WAS able to run a half marathon at the spur of the moment on Saturday in 1:50:16, so hopefully that bodes well. Putting that into McMillan gives me a marathon finish of 3:52:00, but maybe I can cut that down in the next year. Anyway, Trishie I KNOW that you're going to qualify for Boston. I totally understand why you wouldn't want to do it this year. But........ummm...........you might wanna do it before you have babies. And could we run Big Sur before then, too?

Girls, I have to say, that we are all alike in so many ways. We need our own club we rock so much! Trish I dunno if I'll BQ ... off the marathon with not much speedwork I ran a 1:48 half marathon. Do you realize I need to get down to like a 1:43 1/2 marathon (comfortably) for the BQ? Girl, that is so much... argh... so yes OF COURSE we'll not only meet up in Boston but I'd love to run with you! Callie, same with you girl. But I am pretty darn sure you'll make it to Boston. Just rest and refresh. You don't really need to "turn it on" in terms of marathon training until marathon training. Until then, log the miles, do some races, enjoy life like you hadn't when you were marathon training (I missed out on a lot of good things from marathon training) and then we'll see where you girls stand. My guess is you both BQ without planning for it, while I miss a BQ to find out that my plans are shattered. Life's funny like that. Enjoy the ride. But seriously can anyone help me with my speedwork question?

Don't worry, that getting older philosophy had occured to me.

BTW Jennifer, don't you have to PR by like 3 minutes to BQ?

Big Sur? I hear that is a wimpy marathon. Why not run something tough?

Like I said, I'm really looking for a day by day, week by week schedule.

Trishie, and Muse and callie and jennifer if you're still looking for a good schedule, you may want to check out The Self-Coached Runner. It's out-of-print, but you should still be able to find used copies on eBay, Amazon and other places. This book is from 1984, so some of the philosophy may be a little dated. But what I like about it are the very specific schedules. From what I remember, there would be be chapter called "The 3:40 marathon." It would list what kind of times you should be able to run in other races (in other words, how fast you currently are) in order to achieve 3:40, what kind of base training you need to be doing, and then there would be a very specific 8~12 week schedule of what to do each day and how fast. Most running schedules are somewhat generic, but this book had a separate specific schedule for each time goal (20 minute increments, I think). I cribbed some workouts from the companion book "Self-Coached Runner II" which was for shorter distances (5k and under), and ran a PR mile during a time trial. I'd loan you mine, but nearly everything I own is still packed in moving boxes and I'm not likely to see it any time soon. Cheers, Jeff

why, yes! (I think I might have mentioned that 20 or 50 times ) Trent, seriously. You don't know how bad I am lobbying my husband to let me fly out there to run the Flying Monkey visit my dear brother, in mid November... I'm going to have to earn some serious SAHM $$

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