Well…Tomorrow is the Day!

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Well…tomorrow is the day I find out whether or not I made it into the 2014 St George Marathon. Feeling a little nervous, because I REALLY want to do this race to celebrate my 40th birthday and return to marathoning. If I don’t get in, then I hope to quickly select an alternate race. Either way I plan on mapping out my training plan ASAP, and am strongly considering doing the Hanson’s Advanced Plan. More on that later if I choose to go this direction, still in the middle of reading the Hansons Marathon Method book.

After the 500 Festival Mini Marathon last Saturday, I took an unplanned week off from running this week. Just felt tired and decided to take a week to recover. My plan is to get back on the road tomorrow. I did a new core workout yesterday morning, and my obliques are more sore today than I ever remember before. This is definitely a problem area for me, so hoping this new routine will help out there.

Beast Mode….ON!

2014 One America 500 Festival Mini-Marathon – Race Recap and Review

Recap of the 39th annual One America 500 Festival Mini-Marathon in Indianapolis, IN

One America 500 Festival Mini Marathon 
May 3, 2014
www.500festival.com/marathon/

My Run:  Overall, the One America 500 Festival Mini-Marathon (“the Mini”) in Indianapolis was my 15th half marathon. This was the fifth year to run the Mini, which is the largest half marathon and fifth largest road race in the U.S. with 35,000 runners.  The Mini is part of the month-long 500 Festival that leads up to the Indianapolis 500. I missed last year’s Mini due to injury, but was able to defer my registration to this year.

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The Hay is in The Barn

Not sure about the quality or quantity of the hay, but whatever I have is in the barn for the 500 Festival Mini Marathon tomorrow in Indianapolis.

I was able to get in 2 tune up runs this week. The first was an easy 4-miler on Wednesday through the streets of Bellevue at approximately 9-minute pace. After taking 3 days off I was surprised at how bad my legs felt. I guess this was a lingering result from my miserable 13-miler on Saturday.

The second was a 4.75-mile run yesterday on the Harpeth River Greenway. After a 1-mile warmup, my plan was to do 3-miles at goal race pace. I ended up running waaaay too fast with an average pace of 7:34 per mile. This was a mistake for several reasons:

1.) I was pretty tired at the end, which is not smart. Didn’t want to trash my legs for the race.

2.) My goal pace is closer to 7:40, but I have no idea if this is attainable. I know I can complete 3-miles at 7:34, but this doesn’t tell me much about how I would have felt at 7:40 pace.

3.) This offered no practice at maintaining 7:40 pace.

So, tomorrow I’m just going to run by feel and hope to keep every mile under 8:00. This will guarantee a finish of 1:45 or less. If I push much harder than this, especially early on, I’m afraid I may end up walking.

Cross Training

Haven’t done much this week, but did get in a half set of P90X Chest and Back on Monday and X-Stretch last night.

Beast Mode…On

No Running But Still Got In a Workout

Since this is race week, I’m only going to run 3 days at the most before the race on Saturday. Here is my plan:

Tuesday – 3 to 5 miles easy
Thursday – 5 miles with 3 at race pace
Friday – 2 mile shakeout run

After my dreadful 13-miler on Saturday I have no idea what to expect in Indy. I was hoping to better my 1:41 from the Tom King Half in early March, but I’m honestly just going to run according to feel on race day.

Cross Training

Even though I didn’t run today, I did get in another half set of P90X Chest and Back. It is humbling how much upper-body strength I’ve lost, but I’m determined to get it back.

Beast Mode…On!

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