Marathon Training – Week 12 – 4 weeks to go!
| 23/04 | - | Rest day |
| 24/04 | 8.0 miles | Easy run: avg 10:09 min/mile |
| 25/04 | XT | 1500 yards swimming, IM softball game |
| 26/04 | 8.0 miles | Easy run: avg 10:12 min/mile |
| 27/04 | - | Rest day |
| 28/04 | 3.1 miles 5.0 miles |
5K race: 24:59 (8:03 min/mile) Easy run: avg 9:53 min/mile |
| 29/04 | 3.9 miles | Recovery run: avg 9:49 min/mile |
| Total | 28.0 miles | YTD: 404.2 miles |
This past week was a nice easy step back week. I did a couple of easy 8 milers during the week and then on Saturday I ran the Tom Wales Memorial 5K. I’ve already posted my race report. I ran a 24:59 which I’m quite pleased with. I plugged this time into a few online race prediction calculators. I’ll spare you the details but they all predicted times between about 3:55 and 4:15 for the marathon. I think that is overly optimistic. Under ideal conditions I think 4:20 would be great. Really I just want to finish.
I got an email update from the Ottawa Marathon last week. I was excited to learn that our names will be printed on our race bibs. We had this in Vancouver and I thought it was great because the crowd was able to cheer for runners by name. Also there will be live results with splits at 10 km, 21.1 km and 30 km available online. This won’t be very helpful to my fans on the race route but it does mean that friends and family out of town can track my progress on race morning. With less than four weeks to go this is all starting to get very real. I generally alternate between feelings of excitement and dread!
This week coming up promises to be a monster week of in all aspects of my life. I have a midweek 10 miler and a weekend 20 miler on the schedule. School-wise on Wednesday I have a survival analysis midterm, a meeting with my advisor and a softball game. On Thursday my advisor’s former PhD advisor (my “academic grandfather”) will be visiting our department so I’m meeting with him and then going out to a group dinner with him that evening. Plus I’ve got work and research to squeeze in around all the other stuff. I am going to be so ready for the taper!