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Good Bad & The Monkey
Okay, so I am supposed to run all my long runs at a relatively slow pace, say 45-90 seconds slower than my marathon goal pace. And I am supposed to run my marathon pace only for shorter runs, such as during 3-4 mile tempo runs or in the last quarter of a long run. And I am only supposed to run faster than that on even shorter runs, such as intervals. So how does it magically come together such that on marathon morning, never having run my goal pace for more than a few miles, I will suddenly be able to sustain that pace for 26.2 miles? It does not make sense to me.
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
So how does it magically come together such that on marathon morning, never having run my goal pace for more than a few miles, I will suddenly be able to sustain that pace for 26.2 miles? It does not make sense to me.
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Hitting the virtual 'delete' button.
2013
3000 miles
Sub 19:00 for 5K 05-03-13 Clee Prom 5K - 19:00:66 that was bloody close!
Sub-40:00 for 10K 17-03-13 Gainsborough 10K - 39:43
Sub 88:00 for HM
Lo and behold over the last few runs I have been noticing my heart rate actually dropping during a run and today I think I had a breakthrough in that most of my run was at 68% HR and I averaged 9.53 min per mile (and felt very easy). That is quite an improvement considering that I am using the same effort as before.
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Why is it sideways?
I pumped my miles up high and ran lots of marathons. And I did not get faster. I may have even gotten slower. Now I am running much shorter weeks. I have been told not to run any more LSD. So I have been running everything at a 75ish - 95ish% effort. And, like with Chris' and JN's experience, it is getting easier. No, I do not sing. But I am getting faster while running faster while they are getting faster while running slower. Huh. What gives?
You speculated correctly Been running 26 months. All I did for 25 of them was build miles and base. Now I have to do some work. Sheesh.