Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Wed run

day 3 of the marathon training.

4 miles.
36:49
slow run. never broke 7.3mph
ran on the treadmill

my legs are still sore from the race on Monday.

left ass, ham, quad, groin and knee all bitched in a minor way about how they thought it would be a much better idea to lie in a hammock while I poured beer down my gullet.

The goal for the upcoming marathon is to run in 3hrs 10minutes or less and qualify for the Boston Marathon. For months and months and months I've been doing the math and thinking that I had to run 7minute 0second miles. It turns out that I was wrong. Instead of doing the math in my head during a bike ride or while driving around in my truck I did it using a calculator and was rather surprised to see that what I really need to run is 7minutes 20seconds per mile. Yay for math errors in my favor! I took the trouble to do the math because tomorrow's training run is 3 miles at Race Pace. 7:20 boils down to 8.2mph. Which will be kind of a bear, but we'll see how it goes. And now it's off to dreamland.

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