Marathon

Well, two weeks ago my friend/college housemate/college teammate came to visit and to run the Honolulu marathon. We had a great time and I really enjoyed my first marathon. Our goal was 3:10 to qualify schabby for Boston. We were on pace through the half, but I think the warm weather started to catch up with my friend, so with his permission I set off on my own course. I dropped the pace down from about 6:45's to 6:00's and it was going well until I realized I still had 10k to go and I wasn't feeling so hot. You see this was suppose to just be a training run, so I backed off to 7 flat and brought it home in 2:58:13. So my second half was 1:25. Not bad.

The past two weeks have been filled with Christmas shopping and finishing school. My body has been acting funny and although I am not sick, I haven't been feeling so hot. Training wise I have just been doing easy runs. I will get back into training in January. I am trying to peak for a few races over the summer so it's back to doing base mileage and this time I am following Lydiard's training especially since I picked up at copy of Running with Lydiard.

Shitter Get Off The Pot

First, sorry. Second, sorry. Have been really busy and trying to get everything done at work, as well as spending time with Kristine. The Honolulu marathon is in a few days and one of my college roommates is in to run it with me. Actually, he is the one that made me sign up. So, I'm off to the expo tomorrow and then it's time to run.

I say run on purpose. I am trying to convince myself not to race it, but we'll see. I took this week easy after 4-5 weeks of buildup. I am using the marathon as a long run. I think the plan is to run through 13.1 miles at normal run pace then after the half way point I am going to pick it up a little.

New Training

Since I started training at the end of October I have been inspired to train according to Lydiard's model. To date, I have only followed it half heartedly. My main focus has been to just get time on my feet, which is a part of his theory. Basically, I am going to go into it full bore. The one adjustment that I am going to make is that I am going to do a 2 week cycle that I will do twice (that's 4 weeks) and then a week easier, which will be 5 weeks. I have noticed after many years that I need to give my body a week of easier runs to recover. It is always hard to cut back a bit because at the end of 4 weeks I always feel awesome and then I keep pushing it and get sick or injured. In the 70's the Fin's took an easy week after several weeks of training. I am just trying to be proactive rather than reactive. So the rest of my base training phase will take me to the Aloha Run on Feb 8th. After that I'll take an easy week and go into hill training. The search for a good hill to train on officially begins.

Training: (missing a few days, but I'll pick up from what I have)

Saturday: (Dec. 1, 2007)
Duration: 06hr 30min 58sec
Distance: 27.1 miles
Comments: Trail running with the H.U.R.T. guys and gals. Ran up at Peacock Flats in Wailua. I really enjoyed it however my right hamstring began to bother me with about 1 hour to go. Got in all the right food and did not feel that bad afterwards.

p.s. 6,900 ft. of ascent.

Sunday: (Dec. 2, 2007)
Duration: 00hr 46min 49sec
Distance: 5 miles
Comments: R. hamstring was bothering me. I had to stop and stretch it a few times. I am a bit worried.

Monday: (Dec. 3, 2007)
Off- I wanted to rest the hamstring, especially with the marathon coming up.

Tuesday: (Dec. 4, 2007)
Duration: 01hr 29min 31sec
Distance: 10 miles
Comments: Easy run with some of the guys at Runners HI. Took it very easy and the hamstring felt ok.

Wednesday: (Dec. 5, 2007)
Duration: 00hr 18min 22sec
Distance: ??
Comments: Trail run in Waimano. Ran to the falls. Did a lot of hiking and just kind of relaxed. A very enjoyable run/hike.

Thursday: (Dec. 6, 2007)
Duration: 01hr 16min 34sec
Distance: ??
Comments: Trail run with Schab. Found the connections from Royal Summit to the place where Matt and I ran a few times. Hamstring felt strong.

Friday: (Dec. 7, 2007)
Off- I have been having headaches lately, which I think are from eating too much sugar. I also went surfing from the first time today. I got whooped.