| Location: Alpine,NY,USA Member Since: Jul 15, 2007 Gender: Female Goal Type: Olympic Trials Qualifier Running Accomplishments: Began running after 26 years of sedentary lifestyle and four children. Took my first 5 hour 10 minute marathon down to sub 3hr in 2 years.
Short-Term Running Goals: My new goal is to get back to where I was a few years ago; running mainly for enjoyment (and not just to reach a specific time standard) and to reach the highest level of fitness/speed that I feel is possible for me while maintaining a balanced lifestyle.
Long-Term Running Goals: Conquer the last 10k of The Marathon. Personal: Stay at home mom to four kids, married to Matthew, live on a 130 acre farm in Upstate NY.
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| Looking for some advise from some/one of you who does high mileage. I'm about to make my 4th attempt at an OTQ in Tucson on Dec. 2.
12 days.
My last marathon was Detroit, 18 miles of fighting a wicked headwind and then 8 miles of jogging just to finish(3:04). It was two weeks after St.Geprge and I guess I was still tired. So, I followed up Detroit with an 80 mile week, then 96 then 98. Each week I attempted to do a tempo run, 2 of them in XC races (the team needed me) and 2 on the track. Each time, I find that I'm barely able to run more than 10 seconds faster than my goal marathon pace! I've added strides a few times a week but mostly, it's jogging and tempo. I feel tired, but not overly so.
Any advise on what to do between now and Tucson? I'm worried that I've just lost too much speed or that because most all of my running is easy maybe my ability to run intensity has declined (but would that effect a marathon? )
I hate to admit it, but maybe 4 marathons in 3+months is too much....but is it, really? I haven't done them all out. The first one, Sept. 9th, I dropped at 19.5mi(too cold and rainy). The second one was St. George(2:50) then Detroit where I only worked the first 18 miles before jogging to finish.
Any opinions on what to do? I've already got my plane ticket for Tucson, so I'm going. But I'm not sure how to take the next 12 days.
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 9.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 9.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Crosstraining miles | Total Miles | | 6.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.00 |
| Gaige loop. 43.5. felt easy |
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| Barton Hall, Cornell
4 x 800 (300m rec) planned on hitting only MP(3:10's).
felt like comfortable tempo, legs felt peppy.
2:53, 2:50, 2:52, ? goofed up the last one but similarly paced. felt great. no trouble. no pain. no straining. legs feel normal a gain. whew!
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| Gaige loop. easy. |
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| really, really, very much want to feel 100% rested on Sunday.
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| Rte 228. 38min. too cold for strides. I have just now realized that all I have to do in Tucson to get the outcome I'm looking for is to run just like I did in St. George. minus the 7 minute per mile uphills, two pit stops and final 8 minute mile. SGM didn't hurt. I had a lot of fun there and ran comfortably the entire race (except for the last mile but that was probably psychological more than physical) So, I'm going to expect Tucson to be fun and easy.
Thanks for all the well-wishes from so many fastrunningblog'ers! I so much appreciate the input and encouragement! |
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