My first, I ran 11 as my longest run. I probably also never ran more than 17 miles in a week. I think I survived without injury on a combination of being lucky and being 25 years old. About the only thing I did right in that training was to buy a good pair of running shoes (I still wear the same model of shoe :P)
I ran my LRs at 10:45-11:00ish pace, and then a 10:12 average for my HM with fairly even pacing.
You will most certainly be able to finish the HM off of 11 mile long runs. Beyond that, it just gets into how fast you want to finish
My wildly inconsistent PRs:
5k: 24:36 (10/20/12)
10k: 52:01 (4/28/12)
HM: 1:50:09 (10/27/12)
Marathon: 4:19:11 (10/2/2011)
RUN/BIKE/SWIM REPEAT
I echo the others. I'm quite sure you will be fine.
I had only gone 11 miles before my first half and was only running about 25mpw. I was 41 and finished
a very hilly route in 2:13. It wasn't particularly difficult. I'm sure you will do great!
5k-25:29 5M-42:27 10K-54:10 1/2 - 1:57:44 FULL - 4:10:48
6 Full Marathons 25 Half Marathons (Not a Fanatic Just crazy)
!!LookAtmyAss!!
I agree with ya'll, though I still wish somebody could give me details on the Go! St. Louis Half Marathon course, I would really like to know how many hills exactly
2013 Races:
Go! St. Louis Half Marathon - April 7, 2013 - 2:18:28 (10:32 min/mile)
Newburgh Rivertown Trail 5k - May 4, 2013 - 25:26 (8:12 min/mile) 1st Place AG out of 13 / 9th out of 100 Female / 45 out of 196 Finishers
YMCA 5k on the Runway - May 11, 2013 (Goal: 26:59) - Time: 26:40 / 8:38 min/mile pace - 102nd of 389 / 25th of 203 Females / 8th of 27 F25-29
Does their web site describe it? Maybe you can send an email to a running club in the area? I know if we were emailed with questions we would definitely help. I once sent an email to a club in New Brunswick and got very helpful info.
Event details click here
Cartoon-ish elevation map click here
PRs: Marathon (2:55:08; '11) Half (1:21:14; '12) 10k (36:28; '11) 5k (17:48; '11)
5K Specialist
I only had three runs of 10+ going into my half marathon (10.2, 11.6, & 13.2). The 13.2 was more mental than needed.
Personal Bests:
3K - 11:55 (12/29/12) | 2M - 13:00 (12/1/12) | 5K - 20:00 (4/12/13) | 13.1M - I did my time (2/3/13)
Thank you
Wow................. I guess I am happy not to be trying the Full ... hmmm on the Holy Hill, I think I am going to have to do some uphill work as I sure would like an extra medal Of course that is around mile 6-8 so by then I should be warmed up enough not to let the hill phase me, the beginning of the race is relatively flat.... I ain't SCARED!
Event details click here Cartoon-ish elevation map click here
Being from West Virginia, "The Mountain State", I find those elevation changes amusing.
Short term goal: 2:59:59 (November, 2013)
Mid term goal: Any race over 80% of top AG standard
Long term goal: To say I've been a runner half my life. (I started running at age 45).
What's your average run normally consist of?? I'm just curious
I would have to second LTH on the elevation for that 1/2 marathon. Looks pretty mild to me.
The easiest and least hilly 6 mile run I can do from home and back is about 500 ft of climb.
This is my town's full marathon, which I have done twice and also done the 1/2 twice. I live at the top of the BIG
hill on the chart. My chart is in meters so you need to multiply by 3.2 to get the feet. But trust me it's a lot!LOL
The height is on the right of the chart, showing my hill ( I live at the very top) at over 300 feet above sea level.
And since the river is just one mile from my house at sea level it's a long climb to get back home after a run.
The only flat place I can run where i live is the track for my intervals. I could run around that thing every day
but I would go batty.
The Charleston Distance Run has a total elevation change of about 1,000 feet. The Kanawha Trace 50K has over 10,000 feet of total elevation change. Where I work, I can choose to either run on flat ground or to run up some very steep hills. I get the best of both worlds. I can head out of the door where I work and run however far I want with no more than 20 feet of elevation change. In fact, yesterday I did 8 x 800 without going to the track and it was flat enough that my slowest split was only 8 seconds slower than my fastest. Or, I can literally run across the railroad tracks and within a half mile of starting, head up a hill with a 400 foot climb over 3/4 of a mile with some stretches of 19% grade.
I feel like a wimp now
My half marathon was so flat. 125 feet in elevation change.
After going over things and thinking about, I really have no reason to fear the HM in St. Louis. The one that looks scary by it's elevation graph is the Flying Pig Half in Cincinnati
http://www.runningahead.com/maps/find?lat=39.107128&lng=-84.504128&location=Cincinnati%2C%20OH&radius=1609&minDist=13.1&minUnit=1&maxDist=13.5&maxUnit=1&keywords=Flying%20Pig%20Half%20Marathon
I keep going over it, and that incline from mile 5 to mile 9 looks pretty intimidating to me. It makes St. Louis' HM look like a baby. I guess all I can really do is focus on hills during my long runs, to get used to them but we don't have any hills like that around here... darn Southern Indiana.
Express it.
2011 NorCal Tough Mudder...13 miles in length, over 6500ft in total elevation gain...every bit of it above 6000ft. I saw a lot of people "fade" as they were totally unprepared for the altitude.
We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us, and make us kinder.We always have the choice.
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