1mi wu
1 teaser mi @6:56
20 min break drive home and jump on TM
10 mi @ 1:08:35 (6:51ap)
1mi wog cd
I get psyched out, but not often. Today was a challenge.
Today's workout had me psyched out, because I was so scared that the pace was not going to feel comfortable enough for a marathon. If I can't run 10 miles at marathon pace, but magically expect to on race day, I'm in trouble!
I drove down to LPT to avoid traffic since I was doing it late morning. The forecast said it would rain, and it started to. After a couple miles, it started to rain more and I could not get myself excited to run a 10 mile tempo in the rain nor did I want fun shafing patterns on weird parts of my body.
I decided to take it inside after mowing through ideas of where I could possibly run outside and stay covered. It occurred to me that a 10 mile pavilion did not exist. So I took it inside to the most boring Treadmill of all, the one in my basement, pushed all the way up to the wall, facing a window with the blinds stuck down. I stared at white blinds for over an hour. That was the hardest part of all.
So it began, 9 tempo miles at marathon pace. There was no way I was doing 10 since I had already done one tempo mile on the trail. I jumped off twice to quickly swallow a gel and kept going. I decided to make the time go by faster by cutting it into three blocks of 5k's. They all were 21:00- 21:24. It turns out nothing was exciting about that and every 5k was predictable since my pace hardly varied. I also knew my pace on the treadmill was not going to be a true reflection, so I sped it up in the 6:40s, and averaged 6:51ap overall. I was not about to turn up the incline today! Nope.
When I finnaly got to 9, I made myself go one more to 10. Cause I knew it would haunt me all day if I didnt! Overall it was okay. I was a bit concerned about my heart rate, it stayed near 85% for most of the run, higher than most of my other comparable efforts have been. I'm going to be in trouble if I plan to keep my heart rate at 85% of its max for the duration of the marathon! I knew I was just really tired and had the whole "cumulative fatigue" thing going on.
I'm so glad this one is over!! Next week I have a 12 mile race simulation and then slowly taper from there. These last 3 weeks of training have been so draining. C'mon Boston!
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