Re: Tory

August 13, 2004

> I'm training for a triathlon which is on

> > August 15, then beyond that a marathon (or half, haven't decided

> > which yet) which is on November 28. I'll also do a half marathon in

> > September and see if that's enough challenge, or if I should go for

> > the whole shebang in November. Training for these things have kept

> me

> > working out even on vacation. No one wants to get to an event

> > undertrained and then bonk out midway through!

> >

> > I know I'd love to hear your goals! Do you mind sharing?

> >

> > Tory

>

> Girl, you are just amazing. I didn't know you were considering doing

> a FULL MARATHON in November (or maybe I did, but forgot?)...I did my

> first half in March and am not scheduled for my first full until

> December 4th.

Yup! I joined SeattleFit (part of USAFit, which I highly recommend for

anyone wanting to join a marathon training group) as a halfer, but since I

was already doing the half mile lengths, I ended up doing the full training.

On the weekend of July 4 there was no official meeting, but a group of us

decided to go ahead and meet and run. Since they were all fulls and I was a

halfer, I just decided to run the full six with them and I kept up with all

of them and outpaced a few. Figured as long as it was still fun, I'd do the

full training.

> If you decide to do the full, that means we'll both be in training at

> basically the same time. You can run your race (which from your

> message, sounds like it is the weekend before mine) and then I'll get

> pointers from you on what to do/or not to do for mine!

Cool! Then I could help you BACK since you've helped me so much already!

> What distance are you up to on your long run? I did eight miles last

> Sunday. I'm scheduled for nine this weekend. I've actually been

My longest was a ten miler two Saturdays ago. Last Friday I did an 8. Today

I have a 13 mile scheduled but hadn't planned to do it since tomorrow is the

triathlon. Well now I'm sick so that's an excuse too, I guess, but I'm

bumming because honestly...I would have loved to see how a half felt. My

plan, though, is to sneak that in this week if I can.

> pretty impressed with my pace on the long runs. Back last spring,

> when I was in training for the half, my pace during my long runs was

> around a 12-minute mile. (Yea, me and the snails were having

> competitions!) This past 8-miler, using my Garmin, I realized I've

> picked up that pace quite a bit. I'm averaging an 11-minute mile, but

> there are several miles where I'm running quite a bit faster (9:30),

> yet I still have enough endurance to finish the run. I figure if I

> can pay attention and try to run more of a steady pace (rather than

> fast, slow, fast, slow), maybe I can up my average pace to 10:00 or

> 10:30, which I would be happy with for a marathon pace on my first

> one.

My pace for the last two long runs is lower because Roy ran both of those

with me and he runs those long ones at about a 12 minute mile pace. Although

the Friday we got caught in the rain, the lightning gave us a few 9:30s!

Amazing what a little motivation will do for one's pace! I also had a 17 in

there, but I think Garmin messed up and lost the sats at some point because

there is NO way we ran a 17 min mile. At that point I was pacing ahead of

Roy and I walk faster than that.

But on the training runs I generally do about a 10 minute mile. At Roy's

pace, though, I can really just keep going and going and going. The 10 min

pace is great but I can feel like I can do maybe only 3-4 more miles after.

I guess we'll see come race day!

I'm kind of with Bingham in that my goal is to finish the same day I

start on this one. We'll take it from there!

Tory

August 13, 2004