i'm lovin' it... MM#1949
Meg and I have talked about PR's and we are pretty close on times, but she is definitely faster because she was running these times at an older age. I was 38 when I ran: Marathon 2:51, Half 1:20:08, 10K 36:30 and 5K's by the score in the mid-17's. This was in the early 80's. Important to note that back then fiveK's were rare and many marathoners didn't run many of them; they were not always available and we thought they were for the people who could not run distances. Remember I was in a small town upstate NY. A sub-3 marathon requires a pace of about 6:52, and a sub-2:50 something like 6:27. When Meg mentioned her marathon pace at 6:15, and Maine's marathon pace of 7:25, she was alluding to the pace that the marathoner would try to go out in, understanding that he or she would slow. I was using their best marathon times in average m/m. I think Meg's is 2:50. She is a very fast runner. For her best finish time, I would guess she was close to 6:30's if not a couple of seconds faster. Meg? Spareribs
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I thought today what a problem it is for these people that they run too fast! How I would like to suffer from it too.
Life is a headlong rush into the unknown. We can hunker down and hope nothing hits us or we can stand tall, lean into the wind and say, "Bring it on, darlin', and don't be stingy with the jalapenos."
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As a benchmark, when you were running 6:30 MP were you running 17:3X 5k'S AND 1:20 half marathons?
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. . . and this is the first year they plan on capping the entries: 10,000 total for the 5K, 1/2 and full marathon.
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