The pace is not fast but steady for the first two hours and I am covering the mileage easily and without issue. I have in mind the distance of 26 miles. It’s hard to gauge the exact time as my 305 pauses at traffic lights when I do and I have a fair amount of junctions to cross, (22 in total by the end) which allow for a quick breather but break the pace, stride and concentration. Around Mile 15 I can start to feel the road through the sole of my right shoe, nothing too worrying but it’s there. At Mile 20 my pace falters some and I refocus my efforts, my pace is dropping from mid 8s to mid 9s and ends up in high 9s and even a couple of 10s by the end. By mile 25 I am pretty spent; it’s been a long time since I have gone anything further than 12-15 miles on the roads and I am starting to feel it now. I slog through the last 2 miles and then just for the hell of it push for another 0.2 just to make a round marathon distance rather than a round number.
I walk the last mile home to avoid a hard cold stop, consume a large bowl of home made cereal (carbs) and another of Greek yogurt (protein), pop 8 Recover-ease and a multivitamin, two glasses of water, stretch, pack my bag for tonight's 8 miler, shower and I am in bed by 10:30.
So I finish with an unofficial time of 3:55:43, an average pace of 8:59, not my fastest time but not my slowest, I need to upload to MotionBased to get the true numbers but I estimate another 10 minutes spent waiting for traffic lights. I was only nearly mowed down by cars only twice. Consumed 6 gels and 60oz of Pepetuem and burned off 3476 calories which will help towards Swap-Beat, results to follow! No MotionBased data and no photos but here's the GTC info:
That sucks on the you must reschedule...ugh! Great run, and holy heck that is some cal burn.
ReplyDeleteWOW! kudos for not shooting the messenger... that sucks though, especially after traffic! great job on the run, a great time for a marathon, and it wasn't even a race! -- after doing so much trailwork... do you find running on the roads easier? (albiet harder on your feet/body?) i guess what i'm asking is if your trail running has made you a stronger runner?
ReplyDeleteum...you're crazy??
ReplyDeleteWithout the digits, the quality of this posts just suffers ;-) LOL... I almost ran over some poor dude this weekend. Yea, I was texting and he came around the corner at just an inopportune time. I, of course, stopped the car to make sure he was OK. (No I didn't hit him.) Nice 26 miler, I do say. I'd love to be able to hit that pace some day and PR my half mary or full. Something to think about over the off season!!
ReplyDeleteThat's an impressive 26 miles of training run!! I loooove Greek yogurt, too. So so good. I usually throw in some honey, but then, I'm off sugar so not anymore... ;-(
ReplyDeleteWow, great run! Hopefully that got a chunk of the aggravation out of having to reschedule. I love Greek yogurt as well, so good. :)
ReplyDeleteYa know...if ya take out the messenger...you can't any bad messages. ;)
ReplyDeleteI'm impressed that you can go out and just randomly run a marathon length run. Wow!
ReplyDeleteIt is so frustrating to have to reschedule any appointment...poor receptionist, you probably weren't the only one!
ReplyDeleteRunning the roads is a killer on the feet expecially if you are use to trails. Hope you're okay!
Thanks for the recipe's, I'll try that out...
Now that's dedication! Great work.
ReplyDeleteThat's some crazy calorie burn! I'd say you definitely earned that cereal.
ReplyDeletewow, awesome run Stuart! lol, your "training run" beats my PR.
ReplyDeletejust one question, what's Pepetuem?