This week was a major cutback on cycling as running is my main focus going into the half marathon. I may have been trying to hit my running paces too early and pushing too hard as I am not able to hold race pace on my training runs that are only half the distance of the actual race.
Sunday: 32 mile bike with 4x12 min at FTP. Very good workout!
Monday: 7.9 miles total with 5 miles at 7:01 pace for tempo run, still 9 seconds off of race pace to break 90 minutes for half marathon.
Tuesday: 4.3 mile run at easy pace.
Wednesday: 5 mile run and still at about 7:03 pace, starting to accept that 1:30 isn't going to happen this saturday.
Thursday: Rest day
Friday: Busy with work, packet pickup and everything else, might be best just to rest today as well.
Saturday: Race day and it feels great, did about 2 miles of warmup jogging with a couple pickups to remind my legs how to run faster than 7:00/mi. Started out way too fast, but quickly pulled that back and did the first mile in 6:47, ran the second mile at 6:50 and then proceeded closer to 7:00/mi for the first 4 miles. I realized by mile 5 that I wasn't going to be able to run the second half fast enough to make up the time, but my goal was to run my best race. I stayed consistent until mile 8 and ran 6:45 in the 8th mile. After that I couldn't break the 7 minute barrier and finished with some 7:20-7:30 miles. Final time was 1 hour, 35 minutes. A new personal best by over 26 minutes! I feel great about this time as my original goal was to get under 1 hour, 40 minutes.
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