We will follow up this weekends half mary's with another 3 hour LSR next weekend. The following weekend I will run an 18 mile pace run, following the pacing for the marathon. Then TAPER! At this point we will assess all of the data and decide what my chances are of running a 3:29:59 in Savannah. I'm a little nervous. This is becoming very real. Crunching the data, looking at pacing & HR info - I am real comfortable at a 8:20-8:40 pace. My HR stays real constant in a high Z1, low Z2. An 8:20 doesnt get me sub 3:30. My fitness at 8:00 m/m is rapidly improving, two weeks ago, I ran my last 8:00 min pace run of 10 miles. Avg HR was 146, low to mid Z2. So, it's getting there, the question is will it get there in time?
I had my first running dream last night. Well the first one I can remember in a long time. Seems I was running the Pinhoti 100 miler, which I actually do intend on running in 2012. Well I got to the top of Bald Rock, about 40 miles into the race. At the aid station, we had a cooking challenge! Turns out you had to prepare a dish and present it to the celebrity guest judge before you could continue on. Gordon Ramsey was the guest judge. I prepared a delishious oven roasted Chilean Seabass with a sweet potato puree. I think I also sauteed some squash or cauliflower. It's a little fuzzy. Anyways, Gordon seemed pleased with my offering and gave me 3.5 out of 5?!?! Enough to allow me to continue on with the race. To tie it all together for you, dear reader, I think the key to staying ahead of the sweepers at Pinhoti is to get through Bald Rock before the sun goes down. Going through "Blue Hell" in the dark is incredibly slow. So I think this is why I dreamt about that. Several of my friends will be toeing the line at Pinhoti the same morning I will be toeing the line at R&R. I guess we know where my thoughts are these days.
7 comments:
now that's a challenge (cooking) I could get into. I would join you for your 18 miler next weekend, but your race pace is much faster than my training place. Sooooo, see ya! wouldn't wanna be ya! :-)
p.s. your training looks pretty damn good. your focus from here to the end is all mental.
Good thing I wasn't drinking my morning tea whilst reading about your dream or else I would have had tea up my nose.
What an awesome way to break up a race! And I know Ramsay is a runner so he'd probably be up for it.
Send some focus my way would ya!! You are going to DESTROY all previous incarnations of the Snail.
A cooking challenge...40 miles into anything would find me at my limit with PB&J.
Good luck with your pacing and training heading into RnR. Looking forward to hearing how it goes.
I have been following your progress... you are where I want to be in 2 months. Keep it up!
Good luck!
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