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| Cleveland Marathon Race Report... t-7 days (Read 566 times) |
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posted: 5/12/2008 at 5:08 PM |
Purpose
To ease my tapering mind... I am going to journal my experience up to the race here. Then I will provide a full race report. Perhaps I will also write my experience with recovery for a bit as well...
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2008 goals
Cleveland Marathon < 3:59:59 3:38:48- sub 22:00 5k
- PR in the 15k this fall
- Have more fun = run more
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posted: 5/12/2008 at 5:33 PM
modified: 5/13/2008 at 12:07 AM |
Monday of race week
Sleep: 6.5 hours.
Mood: irritable
Excercise: Rest!
Woke up early and was refreshed so I just got up.
I am having doubts about my goal of 4 hours again. A week ago I was positive I could do it. I feel I am in good enough shape to break 1:40 in the half.
Aches:....
Left lower leg from lateral malleolus to mid calf... feels better than it did yesterday. I think whatever the massage stirred up is getting better. I didn't hurt when I ran yesterday. Thinking back I did roll my ankle just barely on a stone last week wed so prehaps that has something to do with it? Also it is the same thing that is related to the foot sweeling I had earlier in my training... so it could have just been something still lingering from that minor injury.
Right hanstring. felt great durrning my run. Feeling better. Still a bit tender to probing. I will do a couple more sessions of deep self massage today and tomorrow and then leave it alone the rest of the week. It is feeling better and better. Yesterday night deep self massage session (while watching TV) was less painfull than the previous nights session.
Morning weight: 149.8
Breakfast
Natures Path Rebound & Skim milk
OJ
-- Coffee--
Lunch
Soft taco (ground meet & taco seasoning, shredded lettuce, salsa, whole grain tortilla)
Activa plain yogurt with ground flaxseed and some fresh pineapple
handfull of baby carrots
2 sticks of cellery... and a tiny dab of natural PB
1 small piece of apple (sliced one up for the 6yo and snagged 1/8 or the small apple)...
-- coffee --
ok after my lunch I am feeling more optimistic again. I feel like my brain is funneling to the realization that "what will be will be"... and to just trust myself. I almost feel like I should believe myself and just run my race and how it comes out it comes out...
Dinner
Alot of rice... white and also pork fried rice... some funky Tofu stuff with brown sauce and peas and carrots... some shrimp low mein, 3 sweet and sour meatballs, 1 small piece of general tso chicken, handfull of baby carrots, 2 celery sticks, salad bowl of butter (red and green) lettuce with cracked pepper and balsamic vinegar (no oil)... about 10 chuncks of pineapple, 1/2 an orange, and a foretune cookie. Black tea.
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2008 goals
Cleveland Marathon < 3:59:59 3:38:48- sub 22:00 5k
- PR in the 15k this fall
- Have more fun = run more
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posted: 5/12/2008 at 5:35 PM |
Race planning
My race plan today is to run the 1st mile and try to stay easy... I figure I can warm up some on my shuffle to the starting line... ease into the first mile... the first mile goal should be to warm up and get relaxed... and ready for the first hill...
Hills on course
1-2 down hill 50 ft... relax... think free pace.... not extra pace...
2-3 100 ft climb... gradual don't over run this mile...
5... no hill but make a mental note about the wind... because you will be seeing this same wind at mile 19
10.5 60 ft hill... nothing... just don't crank up this hill... relax... also don't blow down the back side... relax though this one... don't worry about lost time...
16-22 gradual down hill... let the legs roll... it will be the most scenic part of the course... don't get carried away and go running any sub 8's but (note remember that after 19 you are on the shoreway and there might be wind...
23-24 last 80 foot climb... ok Johnny if you feel it you can let it all out here and finish strong... there is a water stop in there too... ??? going by browns stadium I think I have run this hill before in the turkey trot...
a couple turns and you are there... only 2 and a bit to go... go for it...
ok... so that breaks into
begining
first hill
shoreway
turn back to hill
hill to 1/2 turnaround
chester to downhill
downhill through state park
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shoreway and 19 mile mark
Browns stadium hill
Home stretch
(line denotes 1/2 way for dosing my energy) |
2008 goals
Cleveland Marathon < 3:59:59 3:38:48- sub 22:00 5k
- PR in the 15k this fall
- Have more fun = run more
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posted: 5/13/2008 at 12:08 PM
modified: 5/14/2008 at 4:04 PM |
Tuesday
Sleep: 8.5 hours
mood: Relaxed and centered
Exercise: (plan on doing 3-4 easy! at lunch) did 3+ but they were probably a bit too fast... should be taking it easier... also 120 crunches of various types in the evening in sets of 20 with a few breaths rest between sets.
Aches
Left leg feels even better. almost no tenderness... but it is still tight.
Right hamstring. Self massage last night went better as the size of the trigger point is getting smaller and less tender.
Breakfast
Nature's path power (blueberry)
milk
oj
-- coffee --
Lunch
Cottage cheese & pineapple
shrimp low mein
handfull of baby carrots
few raisins & mixed nuts
swallow or two or milk
small piece dark chocholate
3 triskets
black tea
1/3 or a bannana
snack
pinch of nuts... pinch of raisins...
dinner
Activa plain Yogurt about a cup... 2/3 of a bannana... 2 tbsp of ground flax... several shakes of cinnamon
Romaine lettuce 6 full leaves chopped with a few pieces of parsley... plus balsamic vinegar... drizzeled a tiny bit of garlic infused olive oil on top as well.
small portion of rigatonni in red meet sauce... about a cup and a half..
pinch of mixed nuts... pinch of raisins
few slices of fresh mango
a couple chuncks of pinapple
1 medium sized carrot raw
1 cup milk
small piece of dark chocholate (75%)
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2008 goals
Cleveland Marathon < 3:59:59 3:38:48- sub 22:00 5k
- PR in the 15k this fall
- Have more fun = run more
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Mr Inertia view logHeck of a Guy |
posted: 5/13/2008 at 12:32 PM |
| First marathon? |
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mb197314 |
posted: 5/13/2008 at 1:49 PM |
| Dude, you have too much time on your hands |
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| view log Blaine Moore |
posted: 5/13/2008 at 2:26 PM |
| I like Cleveland's course - I ran it the first year with the new course (2004) and it was my first BQ. |
Run to Win
I just started using Twitter - anybody else on there? http://twitter.com/BlaineMoore
I am now officially an older guy. Don't believe me? Ask Teresa's DS15. |
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| view log Build it |
posted: 5/13/2008 at 2:33 PM |
| Quote from jsobo119 on 5/13/2008 at 12:08 PM: Tuesday
Self massage last night went better as the size of the trigger point is getting smaller and less tender.
I can't...I won't....JK, hold me back! |
The Marathon itself, is the victory lap.
The real marathon is the training you do to get there.
RUN, not to add days to your life, but to add life to your days
Dave~ clubhouseleader 'at' gmail 'dot' com / www.daddyo.ca
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posted: 5/13/2008 at 4:18 PM |
Yes first marathon...
too much time...
perhaps....
I have had a bunch of confernce calls I have to sit and listen in.
-- comment on self massage-- thanks for the good laugh... |
2008 goals
Cleveland Marathon < 3:59:59 3:38:48- sub 22:00 5k
- PR in the 15k this fall
- Have more fun = run more
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| view log I did it! |
posted: 5/13/2008 at 9:00 PM |
checked the 5 day forcast... :)
shoudl be upper 40's to 50's for the race ... :) with 20% chance of rain! Rock on!!!!!!!
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2008 goals
Cleveland Marathon < 3:59:59 3:38:48- sub 22:00 5k
- PR in the 15k this fall
- Have more fun = run more
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| view log The best around |
posted: 5/13/2008 at 11:58 PM |
Quote from jsobo119 on 5/13/2008 at 9:00 PM:checked the 5 day forcast... :) shoudl be upper 40's to 50's for the race ... :) with 20% chance of rain! Rock on!!!!!!!
Good to know. I'll be in town and running the half. Best of luck to you. |
Ben
"A jug fills drop by drop"--Budda
"It's lifestyle choices, really: Dude, does that thing got a Hemi?
No, idiot, and if you weren't concerned so much about Hemis, you'd be able to afford sleeves for your flannel."
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Mr Inertia view logHeck of a Guy |
posted: 5/14/2008 at 12:39 PM
modified: 5/14/2008 at 12:41 PM |
Quote from jsobo119 on 5/13/2008 at 9:00 PM:checked the 5 day forcast... :) shoudl be upper 40's to 50's for the race ... :) with 20% chance of rain! Rock on!!!!!!!
Accuweather has a 15 day forecast. If you haven't been checking the weather every half hour from 15 days out, it shows you just don't care about your marathon
Are you in the Cleveland area? Do you have any time goals for the marathon?
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posted: 5/14/2008 at 4:02 PM
modified: 5/15/2008 at 2:25 AM |
thanks blaine...
Wed
sleep: 7 hours
mood: content
excercise: 6 miles easy... however I felt really easy at the beginning by the HR monitor said high numbers... ???? could have been not registering correctly???
breakfast #1
Kashi Go Lean & milk
oj
Breakfast #2 (post run)
Grapenuts trail mix crunch (about 2/3 of a cup)... + milk
oj
---cofffee---
lunch
Tortilla, ground meat, lettuce, salsa, chineese chili sauce, white rice
some tortilla chips, salsa
handfull of baby carrots
pinch of nuts
pinch of rasins
1 square of dark chockolate
slice of mango
a chunk of pineapple
snack
more nuts and raisins
dinnner
queish(sp) with crab and green onions
lightly sauted broccoli
handfull of baby carrots
cellery stick
baked potate with a dollup of sour cream and chineese chilli sauce
1/3 of a pair (split with the kids)
couple raisins, a couple nuts....
Yerba Mate
-- coffee-- in the evening...
and a bit of dark chocholate 65%
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2008 goals
Cleveland Marathon < 3:59:59 3:38:48- sub 22:00 5k
- PR in the 15k this fall
- Have more fun = run more
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posted: 5/14/2008 at 4:13 PM |
4 things...
1 in laws
2. card
3 horse
4 to see or not to see
1.) Inlaws are going to come down and cheer for me someplace on the course... I think they are going to be out there past the 1/2 way point... pretty cool!
2.) I had been doing a yoga class on tues nights with my wife. Mostly women older than me. The sent a card to me wishing me luck. My wife gave it to me this morning as our neighbor (who is in the class as well) gave it to her while she was down getting the kids on the bus... The whole class signed it! Pretty cool!
3.) The horse:... I read once a runner and the part about the hourses running with them I thought was really cool. Well this morning I had a similar experience... on my way home down my street I was running and heard the horse trotting by me... I looked over and he/she was looking right at me galloping along. Faster than me but it was cool.. .then he/she ran up to her usual place (where I normally see him/her standing) and I looked over at her and said out loud, "Thank you!". And he/she nodded. At that very moment she ran up on me I was having doubts about my goal and it was as if he/she was saying "you can do it".
I have run by the horse many times. Today was the only time this happened! It was very cool!
4.) I am debating if I should go down and take a trolly tour of the marathon course or not. I took a buss tour of Parkerburg 1/2 course and it helped me mentally throughout the race. I think I will post this quesiton on a separate thread...
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Man that horse thing was cool! |
2008 goals
Cleveland Marathon < 3:59:59 3:38:48- sub 22:00 5k
- PR in the 15k this fall
- Have more fun = run more
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