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There are 10 days left until the relay. This week has started my wind-down / taper / whatever:
...putting me at ~22 miles for this week.
I've worked as hard as I can for this race, and I've run more miles than I did training for the half marathon, so I am really hoping that I'll do well.
However, based on yesterday's run -- a 6 mile run (actually 5.7, I had to cut it short because it got too dark to see on the towpath) with 4 miles at "tempo" pace of ~9:20/mile -- I'm not going to be running my leg of the relay at a ~9 min/mile pace like the training plan seems to think I will.
Even 4 miles at 9:20/mi was exhausting, and that's only half of my leg. At the end of the 4th mile, my heart rate was 181 bpm - that's way too fast especially for an asthmatic; that's really close to the "max" that's "healthy" for me to hit, basically, ever. There's no way I could have done ONE more mile at that speed, let alone FOUR. It isn't going to happen.
I realize that on race day there will be adrenaline, and there will be a different kind of warm-up, and that I'll be going all-out, and that's fine, I understand that. But the plan implied that I'd be running 9:09/miles at the end of it, and that just literally isn't going to happen.
It's okay - a 9:30/mile puts me in at 75 minutes, which cuts 5-6 min off of my time from last year, and I'll be more than happy with that. It's just sad because it proves that my stupid asthmatic body needs to train differently than 'normal' runners to get faster.
- 6 mi, 4 mi tempo
- 4 mi easy
- 8-10 mi very easy
- 4 mi easy
...putting me at ~22 miles for this week.
I've worked as hard as I can for this race, and I've run more miles than I did training for the half marathon, so I am really hoping that I'll do well.
However, based on yesterday's run -- a 6 mile run (actually 5.7, I had to cut it short because it got too dark to see on the towpath) with 4 miles at "tempo" pace of ~9:20/mile -- I'm not going to be running my leg of the relay at a ~9 min/mile pace like the training plan seems to think I will.
Even 4 miles at 9:20/mi was exhausting, and that's only half of my leg. At the end of the 4th mile, my heart rate was 181 bpm - that's way too fast especially for an asthmatic; that's really close to the "max" that's "healthy" for me to hit, basically, ever. There's no way I could have done ONE more mile at that speed, let alone FOUR. It isn't going to happen.
I realize that on race day there will be adrenaline, and there will be a different kind of warm-up, and that I'll be going all-out, and that's fine, I understand that. But the plan implied that I'd be running 9:09/miles at the end of it, and that just literally isn't going to happen.
It's okay - a 9:30/mile puts me in at 75 minutes, which cuts 5-6 min off of my time from last year, and I'll be more than happy with that. It's just sad because it proves that my stupid asthmatic body needs to train differently than 'normal' runners to get faster.
