Scare the crap out of me!
In my effort to improve my marathon time in Boston over my qualifying race in Austin, I am trying a more aggressive training program. I am (roughly, and with less mileage) following this Hal Higdon program: http://www.halhigdon.com/marathon/advancedint.htm because I'd heard good things about it. (There's a nice picture of Hal for you too....he's pretty hard core.) One of the cornerstones of the program is the marathon-pace runs done two out of every three weeks that increase in distance up to 10 miles. I've been doing them faithfully and so far I have done one 5-miler, two 6- and one 7-. Today I have to do 8. I do them Fridays after work at a measured running trail around this lake. And every time they make me nervous all day!
The thing about them is, I try to hit my goal pace of 7:40-7:50 miles, which is roughly 3:20-3:25 for a marathon. I've done it successfully so far, but when I run that fast for 6 or more miles, it's hard, man! So it makes me doubtful that I can actually run 26.2 miles that fast....but hopefully in any case these workouts will make me stronger.
Anyway, wish me luck, and I wish all of YOU luck on your long runs, etc. this weekend (or Monday). I am running 16 this weekend but next weekend I am taking a break from running to go skiing in Colorado with Megan and Liz. Woohoo!
3 comments:
The time stamp on this post says 6:15 am but I posted it at 8:36 am central time...why does Blogger do that?
hey mary!
good luck in your run this evening...and good luck to all on your long runs this weekend/monday.
i'm hoping to do 14ish tomorrow, and the good news is that it's supposed to be in the mid-40's here in beantown! yay!
Hey Mary!
I'm doing Hal Higdon too. I did his novice program when I trained for Charlotte in 2006. Now I'm doing the intermediate II program, though I've done some modifications. How are you liking it?
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