Interested in hearing everyone's final word on Grandma's 2011.
My thoughts:
DB: Sub 3 hr, but no PR. Could have been the pre race beers. 6 pack before start is a different kind of carbo loading.
Trent: Nice and steady, PF come and gone.
Tammy or Doug, how did things go? Anybody else?
2018 Goals:
Get Lucky Half 1:47:59
Grandmas Marathon
Fall Marathon - Twin Cities??
Good Bad & The Monkey
Planning to be back in 2012 as well, and I probably still won't target it as a goal race. I simply still don't trust the old woman. Anyhow, June 16, 2012 at 7:45am (due to a delay in the half resulting from HM championships they are running).
I have run every day since the race. I was of course a bit stiff, but that has passed. Worse, I came down with the usual postrace bug which exacerbated my asthma and so I have been wheezing a bit. So my runs have been a bit easier and shorter than I had hoped. Meds came through today, so hopefully I will be rolling again before long.
I may right up a race report. I am still a bit surprised by my PIOYA race, and how relatively easy it was, all the way through the mile 25 which I ran at my recent 10k PR pace.
I think the reason DB did not PR is because he stopped at 6 beers night before the race
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
The reason I did not PR was my fat giggly ass - I need to weigh 195-200 + Be in shape to PR. Half ass shape and 217# I hit 'bout the best I could hope for. BTW - No beer the 7 days prior to the race. Lot's of beer post race. No beer since.
I was super stiff - like I ran a marathon hard for 3 days, now my legs are just not strong yet.
Next year? Depends on a lot. I would like to run Grandmas, but if I run FANS24 race 2 weeks before, I will not be running Grandmas.
Long dead ... But my stench lingers !
PIOYA?
The pacing thing is something I am just know getting into. Seems like it is difficult to know how things are and how to adjust. Similar to Boston's conditions, good tailwind, but you didn't notice it. I believe that this helps the faster runners more, as they have less ground contact,. Mentally,I don't have enough experience or "feel" to adjust my pace. I still use my Garmin for pacing realizing it may be off a little. Even though the early miles were easy, I made sure my 1st mile was slow, and my goal was to have no mile faster than 8:50 before 13.1. I had a few in the 8:40's mainly due to terrain (downhills).
Need to work on what normal pain is versus bad pain in the last 10K.
Nice last 10K Trent!
PIOYA. A fantastic marathon plan. It stands for Pull It Outta Your Ass. That what I did, and it worked
And thanks. My last 10k was 51:53, almost 2 minutes faster than my first 10k.
I think it takes some poeple longer and some never get the "Feel" of marathon pace on race day. I pretty much only run by feel ... even for speed work - I run 5 minutes hard and 5 easy or 4x10 minutes @ perceived LAT pace. When I do a distance tempo - I just do not look at my watch until I am done.
I have never owned a garmin ... If I am running out of town - I run by time and guess at distance ... 19, 20, 21 miles ... its all the same as far as type of workout.
Even though a bunch of my friends ran it and told me what qreat conditions they had this year, Grandma's is still on my "Never Again" list.
Mine too. As in: never set as a goal race again. I'll always plan to jog it. And when things come together, as they did this year, BAM!
Hi!
I'm finally back to work after my 2.5 wk vacation and back home to sunny, warm and DRY Oregon
This was marathon #3 for me and I loved it! I only get back to MN every 4-5 yrs, although now that my grandma is 87, I think I might try to come back in 3 yrs instead. and hopefully I can coincide the trip with G'mas because I'd run this one again . . . but i want this weather. ok?
eta: since I'm still relatively new at this marathon thang, I need to work on when it's safe to kick it up a notch. I think I run this distance too conservatively and am afraid of at what point during that last 10K I can pick up my speed and really push it. It's a mental paralysis I have as I don't want to be one of those runners that I sometimes see with the wobbly legs who can barely walk across the finish line.
I ran a 4:16:53, which was 5 seconds slower than last summers marathon. I was kicking myself for that. soooooo close to a PR and with the net downhill on this course, I really should have been able to PR. About mile 20 though I could feel some tightness thru my IT band and that kind of scared me too, as I fought recurring ITBS for over a year when I first started running 5 yrs ago. Fortunately, after about 36 hrs the IT pain was gone and I ran on Monday following the marathon and felt good.
Tammy
I'd run this one again . . . but i want this weather.
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