Post marathon

Monday 13th October – cycling (and lots of walking the rest of the week)

Sunday 26th October – Body Pump and Body Attack

Monday 27th October – 400m swim – 12.26mins (2.5 mins faster than last time)

Visiting the non-windy city!

Chicago Marathon, 12th October 2008, 4.54.11, ave pace – 11.07

8.05, 8.56, 11.06, 9.19, 10.11, 9.18, 10.13, 10.00, 10.02, 10.41, 11.58, 10.54, 10.44

10.03, 13.09, 12.40, 11.29, 12.17, 11.55, 13.39, 11.47, 11.46, 13.28, 12.07, 11.55, 11.17, 4.59

I would rather talk about the shopping, but I will have a go at the marathon first.  Work was so manic when I got back I am just getting round to writing this now.

 

going through chinatown

Heat, trans-atlantic travel and lack of training stumped me in this marathon, in that order I would like to think.  I knew from the temperatures at the start this would happen and as exactly the same in New York I could have gone to sleep at the side of the road from early on in the race and felt pretty terrible.  This time though I did not ignore it but recognised rightaway there was no point in pushing it and just settled down to enjoy the race.

I mostly did as well, I had some low points but as I have written about on my work blog the spectators and volunteers made it a very special run.  I am not going to repeat it all here but part of the reason I wrote about it on my work blog was because of the numbers of teenage volunteers there were – go to that blog to read more!

 

finished

sure I enjoyed that as I like the variety of an undulating run and love running down hill now.  There was something really special about lining up at the start and seeing all of these skyscrapers that you were about to run inbetween, it is a bit hard to describe.

city skyline

And that’s all I’m going to write, I can hardly remember it, it seems so long ago already and it wasn’t like I got a good time to write about.  It is about the same length of time it took me to run London in the hot year and exactly an hour longer than my pb!

I love the Nike slogans

It was great being there for the week and Chicago was fab, I would highly recommend it.  With 48 hours to go though, I was complaining that I had hardly bought any clothes – just marathon gear and one or two pairs of shoes.  Debs you would be proud – I then had a spree of about 3 hours after that complaining, 1 hour or so the next day and about six hours on the last day to spend every single penny I had budgeted for, (but not more, I don’t own a credit card) and that was without, I think, any rash purchases and some very nice clothes in my collection now (in my opinion!)

Not ready for Chicago, but too late now!

Have not posted in ages as so busy with work, and not actually done a lot of training anyway.

Writing it up now anyway, just for my notes!

Friday 26th Sept – 13 miles (supposed to be more but it didn’t happen!

Monday 29th Sept – running club 5.30 miles

2.00mins – 7.29m/m pace        30secs – 7.17m/mpace

2.00mins – 6.46m/m pace       30secs – 5.54m/m pace

Forgot to lap watch                  30secs – 7.51m/m pace

2.00mins – 7.39m/m pace       30secs – 7.40m/m pace

2.00mins – 8.03m/m pace       30secs – 8.40m/m pace

2.00mins – 8.45m/m pace       30secs – 7.46m/m pace

2.00mins – 8.24m/m pace       30secs – 8.41m/m pace

2.00mins – 7.45m/m pace       30secs – 7.44m/m pace

Sunday 5th October  Inverness 10km

47.05, 10km, ave pace 7.33m/m

7.26, 7.03, 7.31, 7.29, 7.55, 7.58, 6.52 pace for last part

Did some body attack as well.

So again not a lot of traning done lately but still managed another pb by about 30 secs in the Inverness 10km.  Not expecting/going for one in Chicago as I do not have the endurance in me.