I’m about a month and a half into my official marathon training.\u00a0 So far, my longest run was this past Monday at about 14 miles (13.5 plus a warmup walk and cooldown walk).\u00a0 I’m not increasing distance again until the weekend of November 3\/4.\u00a0 I have the Baltimore Half Marathon tomorrow and the Army Ten Miler the following weekend.\u00a0 The weekend after that, I will be out of town for a wedding.<\/p>\n
I figure that the racing will be good training because even though I’m not increasing distance, I will be running faster than normal training pace.<\/p>\n
My pace has been frustrating as of late.\u00a0 I’m not doing a lot of speedwork, as it isn’t recommended in the plan I’m following.\u00a0 Once I’m confident that I can handle the distance, I will return to speedwork.\u00a0 I do run my mid-week runs at a faster pace than my weekend runs, but that’s about it.\u00a0 So I shouldn’t expect to see any pace improvement. It’s just frustrating to see my pace falling.<\/p>\n
Here’s an example from Monday’s run.<\/p>\n
Mile 1 – 14:28
\nMile 2 – 14:02
\nMile 3 – 13:41
\nMile 4 – 14:52 (here is where I got stopped by a guy who wanted to chat)
\nMile 5 – 13:45
\nMile 6 – 13:56
\nMile 7 – 14:23 (here is where I stopped to look at map)
\nMile 8 – 13:42
\nMile 9 – 14:17
\nMile 10 – 14:03
\nMile 11 – 13:49
\nMile 12 – 13:56
\nMile 13 – 14:24
\nFinal .46 – 6:52<\/p>\n
That’s about a 14:08 pace.\u00a0 Which I guess isn’t that bad, now that I look at it.\u00a0 All the calculators say I should be running my long runs at 14:07 based on my half marathon PR, so… maybe I shouldn’t complain.\u00a0 It’s just tough to see those numbers.\u00a0 I’d like to be running at least under a 14 minute mile.<\/p>\n
This is when being slow just eats away at my brain.\u00a0 My goal for the marathon?\u00a0 Finish.\u00a0 I’d like to finish in the official time, meaning that I need to run 16 minute miles.\u00a0 So if I can keep my training at under 14:30’s, I’m fine.\u00a0 I don’t have any other time goals.\u00a0 Time goals are for my second marathon, assuming there is one.<\/p>\n
But it’s hard to be slow just the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m about a month and a half into my official marathon training.\u00a0 So far, my longest run was this past Monday at about 14 miles (13.5 plus a warmup walk and cooldown walk).\u00a0 I’m not increasing distance again until the weekend of November 3\/4.\u00a0 I have the Baltimore Half Marathon tomorrow and the Army Ten […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[42],"tags":[27,165,151,152],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n