Marathon Training – Week 16 – Training summary and race plan

Posted by Cecilia on Thursday, May 24, 2007 · 2 Comments 

21/05 - Rest day
22/05 5.0 miles Tempo run: 3 miles @ 8:30/8:42/8:43 min/mile
23/05 3.2 miles Easy run: avg 9:52 min/mile
24/05 4.1 miles Easy run: avg 10:08 min/mile
25/05 - Rest day
26/05 - Rest day
27/05 26.2 miles Marathon Race Day!
Total 38.5 miles YTD: 524.5 miles

This morning I completed my last training run before the marathon. That brought my total training mileage over the last 16 weeks up to 421.9 miles or 679.0 km – roughly the distance between Ottawa and Windsor. Because marathon training is really just a big excuse to make graphs I’ve summarized all my training below by week and type. Looks pretty cool eh? The biggest week of training was week 13 at 38.9 miles which included my longest run of 20.5 miles.

2007 Ottawa marathon training - what actually happened

The race is now 3 days away and I’m happy to report that I’m pretty calm about the whole thing. In fact I sort of just feel like I’ve just come home for a visit! It will probably seem more real when I go to the race expo tomorrow. I have however started daily checks of the weather report for Sunday. Currently they’re calling for a high of 19C with showers. Rain would suit me just fine in comparison to today’s weather which was sunny with a high of 33C!

My one and only goal for this race is to finish. My plan is to run at around a 10:30 min/mile pace. This is around the pace I did for most of my long runs and slower than any finish time calculator would tell me to run at. I’m going to set a personal best no matter how fast or slow I run so I’d like to stay in a happy place for as long as possible. I am totally expecting to reach an unhappy place at some point along the course but I think I’ll be able to manage it. I would like to be smiling when I cross the finish line. If I finish in around 4:30 that will be great. Anything slower will be great. Anything faster will be great too. As I said, my one and only goal is to finish.

This will probably be my last post before the marathon. On Sunday I think you will be able to search for live results and splits using my bib number 2324.

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2 Responses to “Marathon Training – Week 16 – Training summary and race plan”
  1. Mark Jackson says:
    May 24, 2007 at 8:22 pm

    Hey Cecilia,

    Good luck in the race this weekend! I was hoping to do the 10k, but I had to go out of town for a wedding. Just make sure you memorize the route. Last year, some volunteer misplaced the pylons and a few of the racers ended up taking the wrong course.

  2. Douglas says:
    May 27, 2007 at 10:02 am

    Hope the race is going well!