I will check back in a month.
I know that's right. Bigger runs and higher mileage dead ahead!
Marathon training sucks.
So, which sucks more - the training or the race?
Dave
....popping this cherry has been tough.
That was a crabapple, the cherry is a long ways off. lol
When is your event, in November?
Runs4Sanity
You just wait. You haven't popped it yet.
*Do It For Yourself, Do It Because They Said It Was Impossible, Do It Because They Said You Were Incapable*
PRs
5k - 24:15 (7:49 min/mile pace)
10k - 51:47 (8:16 min/mile pace)
15k -1:18:09 (8:24 min/mile pace)
13.1 - 1:53:12 (8:39 min/mile pace)
26:2 - 4:14:55 (9:44 min/mile)
That was a crabapple, the cherry is a long ways off. lol When is your event, in November?
Yes, November 1st will be when I really pop the marathon cherry. Right now I'm working on the training cherry, and I am officially bitching about summer.
Former Bad Ass
Those are fighting words!
Damaris
You guys are a buzz-kill. Now I need to listen to some Rocky theme music or something.
Life is good.
Or watch Spirit of the Marathon.
I couldn't really get into the Spirit of the Marathon 2.... not sure why
#3 comes out in 2016 on Boston wtf. They filmed in Boston this year, and it takes 2 years to edit?
race obsessed
Not on Tuesdays... You running the HH 10k?
Not on Tuesdays...
You running the HH 10k?
Yeah I think so. Need to wake up for it, but that's the plan. Really just a tempo effort.
Regarding training truths no beers the night before a long run or I will be stopping off at Burger King during my run which is gross, or improvising in an affluent neighborhood.
Haha!
I lapped a guy at the track tonight who had that blaring out of his earbuds.
Unfortunately for him, it made me speed up!
Good one
I've completed 17 full marathon training cycles, and I'm now working on my 18th. Still, I have no marathon training truths, other than this: when the mind goes rebellious, I'm done. Physically, I can follow my plan, but mentally, when I'm thinking that I've had it, I've had it. I have to take a few days off or else I will start hating what I'm doing. I need to feel in control of my training, NOT controlled by it. Aside from that, nipples are good, as well as the rest. No real complain about training for marathons, it's the same as training for any other distance (not that I would really know, though).
PRs: Boston Marathon, 3:27, April 15th 2013
Cornwall Half-Marathon, 1:35, April 27th 2013
18 marathons, 18 BQs since 2010