Good luck on the race, sir. 1:50 is a fine finishing time.surfndestroy wrote:Haven't run in a month or more but have been cranking up the intensity of my bike rides into work. Have a half marathon on Sunday. Shooting for 1:50, slow by some of your comparisons but I'm older. It's supposed to be a beautiful day, looking forward to going hard in the sunshine then gluttoning myself on beer.
For how little I run and my age, it's pretty respectable. I will update on Sunday with either a happy face or sad face. Sub 2 I'll be happy, sub 1:50 really happy. I want to be really happy. This same race last year was my first time running further than 7 miles and haven't run further than 7 miles since then. I have a better idea of how hard I can hit it on the back stretch and hope to lop off some time from last year's 1:57.turned2black wrote:Good luck on the race, sir. 1:50 is a fine finishing time.surfndestroy wrote:Haven't run in a month or more but have been cranking up the intensity of my bike rides into work. Have a half marathon on Sunday. Shooting for 1:50, slow by some of your comparisons but I'm older. It's supposed to be a beautiful day, looking forward to going hard in the sunshine then gluttoning myself on beer.
i hate you people that "never run" and can go out and run a half marathon. Damn you, i labor my way through training for a 10k.surfndestroy wrote:For how little I run and my age, it's pretty respectable. I will update on Sunday with either a happy face or sad face. Sub 2 I'll be happy, sub 1:50 really happy. I want to be really happy. This same race last year was my first time running further than 7 miles and haven't run further than 7 miles since then. I have a better idea of how hard I can hit it on the back stretch and hope to lop off some time from last year's 1:57.turned2black wrote:Good luck on the race, sir. 1:50 is a fine finishing time.surfndestroy wrote:Haven't run in a month or more but have been cranking up the intensity of my bike rides into work. Have a half marathon on Sunday. Shooting for 1:50, slow by some of your comparisons but I'm older. It's supposed to be a beautiful day, looking forward to going hard in the sunshine then gluttoning myself on beer.
You would rock this one. First 3 miles is a casual decent and then only to uphills. It's flat and fast with some world class scenery going through Stanley Park and hitting the seawall. It's very cool running in the sun along the ocean's edge and looking up at our local ski hills covered in snow. The race ends half a block from my work so I can be showered and changed before heading home. Sweet deal all around.
I cheat though. I do at least 75 miles a week on my bike going balls out. I get lots of cardio work, just not running. Everyone's body is different. Mine is good better for arobic exercise than anarobic. I have to work like a dog to get strong. I have a buddy who seemingly thinks about working out and looks ripped.BDB wrote:surfndestroy wrote:i hate you people that "never run" and can go out and run a half marathon. Damn you, i labor my way through training for a 10k.
My brother is one of these people, he pretty much went from not running at all to a 3:30 marathon in about 6 weeks.surfndestroy wrote:I cheat though. I do at least 75 miles a week on my bike going balls out. I get lots of cardio work, just not running. Everyone's body is different. Mine is good better for arobic exercise than anarobic. I have to work like a dog to get strong. I have a buddy who seemingly thinks about working out and looks ripped.BDB wrote:surfndestroy wrote:i hate you people that "never run" and can go out and run a half marathon. Damn you, i labor my way through training for a 10k.
Well fucking done and happy birthday.red calzolaio wrote:ran 18 miles today, 2.431 hrs.
Honestly, heat kills times. I wouldn't beat yourself up about it.surfndestroy wrote:Fuck, 2:01:16. Just started out too fast and then was dying in the back stretch. Hottest day of the year didn't help but excuses are for girls. Oh well, another run next month, 16km all up hill. To the shower, then the bar. I figure if I time this rigth I can be passed out in the sun by 1pm. So pissed I didn't get sub 2.
I have little doubt you will finish under 4 hours. Even if it was "only" 24, you broke through "the wall" and managed the pain, which is the most important part of marathoning. As the weather warms spend a decent amount of time outside, even if it's just playing with the kids at the park. Just get your body acclimatized as much as possible. Honestly, if you drop another 10 pounds you'll be golden.daft twat wrote:been a while since i checked in here. i have pretty much abandoned the marathon training schedule i was doing, as i was just hurting myself. it's also been the shittiest spring in memory in the twin cities. running outside has been tough. last weekend was beautiful and i just decided to run as far as i could. i have this app called map my run, which seems pretty cool. at mile 9 i thought to myself, "today i'm running a marathon no one knows about." by mile 12, i was thinking, "i hope i can get home." i wound up running 14 miles. took me about 2:03, and i had nothing left in the tank. i vowed the next weekend i would be better prepared.
cut to this weekend. it was in the 40s. i had 3 energy gels in my pocket. map my run was off. it told me i'd done a mile way before i had. as time wore on, i think it righted itself a bit. i took gels at 10, 16, and 21. i hit 26.2 miles at 3:42:35. i was fucking chuffed. i'd never run more than 15 miles before. my excitement has since been tempered. i think my app was generous by about 2 miles. i'll never know for sure, but i think it was maybe 24 miles. if so, it means i'm very close to my goal of finishing a marathon in under 4 hours. but i'm also very close to not making it.
positives: it was my longest run ever. it was a bit hilly, which the marathon i'm running is not. i have a strained right groin from coaching baseball, and i was able to run through some pretty heinous pain for the last 45 minutes. i have the willpower and pain threshold to do this motherfucker. i'm still heavy. i only recently started cutting weight. i ran at probably 165 today. i'd like to be at 155 on june 22nd. no shin splints.
negatives: it was really cool today. i hardly sweat at all. that likely won't be the case during the marathon. my right knee is killing me right now. groin too. i don't think i ran a full marathon distance, and i was a bag of shit when i quit today. if it was only 24 miles, i think i would have been a couple minutes past 4 hours. i have no idea how i'm going to get out of bed for work tomorrow.
as a last thought, i listened to the arctic monkeys live at glastonbury on a loop. what a great band!
Running 10 miles in an hour is a goal I'll probably never reach now. 62 flat is my PR.warehouse wrote:dude who won the Broad Street Run in Philly (10 miles) finished in 47 minutes
my buddy finished in an hour, still pretty good.
That finishing kick builds confidence, doesn't it?BDB wrote:had the best run i've had in a month last friday. 5.5 miles with great finishing "sprint".
Took the weekend off with doing yard work instead.
will get hopefully another 5.5 miler in this afternoon. under 4 weeks until the 10k.
