Ready for my first 1/2M of the year

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2009-08-05 3:23 AM

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Subject: Ready for my first 1/2M of the year
Signed up for a 1/2 marathon a while back, but then we went on vacation to Austria and France with the bikes and since riding was SOOOO nice, I completely skipped running.... did a 13.1miles yesterday and surprised myself in doing a 1.44:06 (which equates to just about 8min/mile). Very excited and definately feel ready for the race. Have 5 weeks left to boot, so things are looking quite ok.

2009-08-05 8:56 AM
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Good to hear ! Keep it up! I am hoping maybe some of my biking will transfer to the run.
2009-08-05 10:58 AM
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Wow. Thats pretty fast in my book.
2009-08-05 11:20 AM
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Subject: RE: Ready for my first 1/2M of the year
if you can run a training run at that pace, i'd say shoot for 1:30 or under for the race.
2009-08-06 6:02 AM
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ultrahip_00 - 2009-08-05 12:20 PM

If you can run a training run at that pace, i'd say shoot for 1:30 or under for the race.


Would love to do a 1.30 1/2 mary, but look at the pace... 1.44 equates to a 7.56 pace; 1.30 equates to a 6.52, not realistic... I might go under 1.40, but that will be a struggle. PB is 1.35, so I'm well off that.

Still... I'm quite excited about this training run since I've only been ITB problem free for a couple of months. Haven't really run at all during the spring. Biking is great for building endurance obviously. Another interesting side-effect is that my biking is faster than ever, yet I can still put out some nice runs. Just did a 10k training run in 41.26

Feels like I'm getting back to my Duathlon shape again.

Edited by audiojan 2009-08-06 6:07 AM
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