A couple of people emailed me about my last post, which was nice seeing as I have been such a crappy blogger (writer and commenter) this year I wasn’t sure anyone read it anymore! Anyway they wanted me to qualify my comment about times.
I wrote a couple of conflicting statements;
“My plan actually called for Marathon pace +30 which gave me a target of 7:39…” indicating my pace would be 7:09
and
… “when I “need” to average 7:23…oh well in two weeks I get to do it all again!”
The truth is that yes according to my 5k time of 19:11 the FIRST plan establishes a pace of 7:09 and predicts a marathon time of 3:07, to be honest that scares the bejesus out of me! That being said a 7:23 pace would give my a finishing time of 3:14, enough to make the qualifying time of 3:15 for Boston by 1 minute. Under the new rules that does not guarantee me an entry as it is now fastest come first served:
To be honest running Boston was never on my radar although I can see the appeal. For me qualifying for the New York Marathon, which I did in August at this race (running a sub1:30 Half Marathon guarantees me a Masters entry)
and Boston in the same year has the cache. Now as to whether I run them in 2012 and 2013 we will have to see…I have some other fish to fry before then.
pfffft... my half marathon results predicted a 3:45 marathon time... Ain't no way I'm working that hard :-) I'm sticking to a sub-4 pace until mile 20, then I'm giving it all I got!
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