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Wednesday February 22 2012
Scotiabank Waterfront Half Marathon 2010
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Posted on: Tuesday October 05 02:18:02 PM
I chose to run the half marathon this year. The last couple of years I have tried to fit in every marathon I could make it to. This year however, I needed to stick by my training plan and just run what was necessary to qualify for Boston again.That means less racing and more proper training. I feel this has gone well up to this point and as we are two weeks away from my goal race, the Toronto Goodlife Fitness Marathon, I am confident I am as fit as I was the last time I ran 3:19 in order to get to Boston. I will do it again, and the bonus, is that a fall marathon gets me into 2011 and 2012 Boston events. That will take some pressure off and allow me to get out there and run a bunch of marathons again with no regard to speed. Just the love of running.
So, back to the race. As it was 3 weeks out from Goodlife, I was scheduled to do a 20 miler. Anita and I planned on getting up early enough to run before the race as part of the training run, then do the race as the 2nd part. This worked out well, forcing me to do the 10k easy and save the good stuff for the race, or the 'tempo' portion of the workout.
After my warm up, I went to the appropriate corral. people still do not so this! Annoying. Anyway, I met a few of the usual suspects there, started the race with them and then let them go at their pace. After they moved ahead, I caught up with Boston Bob whom I ran with for a couple of km. His great race of 3:20 was in fact great, but I felt good enough to run my shorter race at a bit faster pace so moved ahead and ran solo, kind of the way I like to race, no talking, just focused.
I promised myself not to push too hard so as to not burn out or get hurt. I ran for the first time in a while without letting my GPS watch decide the pace. I ran a 'comfortably hard' pace and kept it going, pushing hard only in the final kilometre.
1:34:57.1 was my actual time and the only signs during the race I would come in around there were the pace bunnies. I was between the 3:10 and 3:15 marathon pace bunnies. This result was only a minute shy of a personal best, while feeling like I had more in me even despite the lengthy pre-race run. Very confidence boosting especially since I did not feel tired on the following days. This ended up being one of those races that gets you no rewards, other than a shirt and medal of course, but yet the joy of the run was there, the weather was spot on, the people around me and the feeling of successfully completing a run as planned made it a great race. I would have loved to have run with that effort and finish closer to 1:30 but I guess I need more time.
Playing it smart. All part of a good marathon plan.
Next up. 25K trail race (training run!) The Run for the Toad.
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Posted by Dave on: Tuesday October 05 02:18:02 PM
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I think I'm going to take a stab at the half.... despite my piss poor training.
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