Weekend workouts/training/etc
Another big miler under my belt! We ran 18.79 miles at 10:39 pace today - aside from some chafing and blisters, I feel pretty good! Might run tomorrow w/ a friend from my pace group - 1 block into the run, she tripped and fell face first into a fire hydrant! She had to get 5 stitches for a split chin but otherwise feels fine enough to run so I'll probably join her for part of her make-up-long-run to ease the pain, poor thing!
First ultra: Stone Mill 50 miler 11/15/14 13:44:38, First Full Marathon: Marine Corps 10/27/13 4:57:11, Half Marathon PR 2:04:43 at Shamrock VA Beach Half-Marathon, 12/2/12 First Half-Marathon 2:32:47, 5K PR Run Under the Lights 5K 27:23 on 11/23/13, 10K PR 52:53 Pike's Peek 10K 4/21/13, (1st timed run) Accumen 8K 51:09 10/14/12.
Wow that is awesome!!!! and YIKES to the poor lady who fell! Ouch...
Saturday I had a battle with nausea and general yuck feeling after eating - egg and turkey bacon! I took a nap, helped my mom into the pool for a few minutes, got her a bath and clean bed sheets then turned in my 6 miles for half training. 12:08 avg pace, Slower than previous runs, but I'll take it, I finished
Today was Tri training. I was SOOO sore! But still managed a little over 600yd bay swim, 18 mile bike and 5k mostly walk (between my sore legs from leg day friday and running yesterday, and my friend who is training for a marathon w/ a big blister, we thought walking was pretty strenuous! LOL )
I don't know if I have ever been as happy to see a Monday rest day.
COURAGE TO START, STRENGTH TO ENDURE, RESOLVE TO FINISH
HW 353 SW 317 Original GW 180 Current Wt 170
First 5k 59:18; 5k PR 32:06; 1st 10k 1:20:27; PR 1:08:36
1st Half Marathon 2:48
Pensacola Double Bridge Run 15k- 1:47:34
Three Sprint Triathlons
OMG-OUCH for your running partner!!
SO thrilled for you to be making so much progress with your marathon training!!!
HW333--SW 289--GW of 160 5' 11" woman. I only know the way I know & when you ask for input/advice, you'll get the way I've been successful through my surgeon & nutritionist. Please consult your surgeon & nutritionist for how to do it their way. Biggest regret? Not doing this 10 years ago! Every day is better than the day before...and it was a pretty great day!
on 9/2/13 8:27 am, edited 9/2/13 8:30 am
OMG. That's terrible! She is so lucky it was just a busted *****an you imagine the damage that a fire hydrant would have done to teeth or a nose?
I had 18 miles today.
I'm going (more than) a little slower than I think I am capable of/should be in order to run long with a friend. I thought our paces were closer than they were but I think I'm going about a minute/mile too slow. Should I ditch her? I don't really want to. She's a lot of fun and keeps me at it. I push the pace during all my other runs and wonder how much my overall marathon pace is going to suffer.
ETA - I don't finish my long runs feeling totally awesome and like I could go out and do a bunch more miles. I'm tired. I'm sore. I'm READY to be done at the end. Maybe I actually couldn't do the pace the I'm "supposed" to be doing as the miles get longer and longer even though I could do at the shorter long runs (12, 13, 14 miles)?
I was reading in RW about the debate: to ditch & solo or to sacrifice the pace. IMO if you're evening out on your solo runs & speed work and just sticking with your friend on the long runs, you should be fine.
If there can be something kismet about falling on a hydrant, our group has 2 drs and a dentist! So she was well taken care of. And decided to take the day off of running, so we all got a Monday-rest-day!
First ultra: Stone Mill 50 miler 11/15/14 13:44:38, First Full Marathon: Marine Corps 10/27/13 4:57:11, Half Marathon PR 2:04:43 at Shamrock VA Beach Half-Marathon, 12/2/12 First Half-Marathon 2:32:47, 5K PR Run Under the Lights 5K 27:23 on 11/23/13, 10K PR 52:53 Pike's Peek 10K 4/21/13, (1st timed run) Accumen 8K 51:09 10/14/12.
13 hospitalized... And one passed away
Sorry to hear of your friend.. The gentleman who passed reportedly fell, too, at mile 1. Not aure if it was heat, if other issue caused fall or fall caused other issue.. So sad
Be happy.
Wow! That's so sad! Not the way one wants to remember a Half.... We had a person in our marathon training (who was in her 70s) that had a stroke right after a training run & died 
. I guess if there's a silver lining, I'd rather die doing something I loved...
First ultra: Stone Mill 50 miler 11/15/14 13:44:38, First Full Marathon: Marine Corps 10/27/13 4:57:11, Half Marathon PR 2:04:43 at Shamrock VA Beach Half-Marathon, 12/2/12 First Half-Marathon 2:32:47, 5K PR Run Under the Lights 5K 27:23 on 11/23/13, 10K PR 52:53 Pike's Peek 10K 4/21/13, (1st timed run) Accumen 8K 51:09 10/14/12.
Ouch to your friend!! That's nice that you'll join her for her make-up run :-)
I'm training for my first full marathon October 20th. I did 18.64 (30k) with a 6:16k pace (10:01 mile pace). Took 3:08:16 to do the run. The previous week the same run took me 3:16:38, same course too. Getting faster!! Yay!
Surgery March 23/2011. Completed three full marathons and two half marathons, two half Ironman distances. Completed my first Full Ironman distance (4 km swim, 180 km bike, 42.2 km (full marathon) run) in Muskoka August 30/2015. Next Ironman Lake Placid July 23/2017!
Super job on the speed!!
First ultra: Stone Mill 50 miler 11/15/14 13:44:38, First Full Marathon: Marine Corps 10/27/13 4:57:11, Half Marathon PR 2:04:43 at Shamrock VA Beach Half-Marathon, 12/2/12 First Half-Marathon 2:32:47, 5K PR Run Under the Lights 5K 27:23 on 11/23/13, 10K PR 52:53 Pike's Peek 10K 4/21/13, (1st timed run) Accumen 8K 51:09 10/14/12.
