Everyone that has been reading my blog knows that I'll be running Rocket City Marathon this Saturday. Well, I'm hoping that will be the case. What I mean by this is that there is a possibility I may not make it to the race. The reason is because "duty" may call. I'm praying that the folks in Washington, who gets paid the big bucks to make wise decisions, can leave those deployment orders in the bottom of the inbox. I don't mind leaving for the 3rd time, just not this week.
Lately, I've been asking myself "what is marathon pace?" I personally think my marathon pace is between 5:56 & 5:59 pace, which would put me at a 2:35:30 to 2:36:50 marathon. If I average 6:00 pace for the marathon, I'd still be very happy because it is a PR. The one thing I'll ensure to do this weekend is to run a smart race. The goal is to run negative (or even) splits as I've done in my last 3 marathons.
This morning I took my Soldiers on our weekly company run. The legs appreciated the nice slow easy run.
Today's run: 45:22 (5.5M - 8:15 pace) slow and easy
4 comments:
gotta love thos negative splits-way to go.
let's hope duty holds off on those orders so you can reap the benefits of all your hard training.
Here's hoping you don't get deployed at all, let alone this week.
Good to hear you have a history of negative splits.
Certainly hope your able to get in this marathon. You're ready for a great race. Running with your company should be interesting. I can just hear you up front in the ead ... "pick up the pace, we've only got 20 miles to go".
Good luck if you're able to run.
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