no "training" shirt for me, but I got a pink postcard that says "Start Training , NOW!" or something like that. Right now, I got no place to stay, but looking at dorms, don't need luxury, told my wife this trip is business not pleasure.

G'mas has got be one of my all-time favorite marathons and I'm excited to go back this year.

St. Scholastica will usually open up registration April 1st. I've never been in other dorms so I can't tell you how they compare but they have a beautiful campus (Alum speaking from experience).

I received my confirmation card and "in training" shirt yesterday!! Now I guess the serious training starts.

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St. Scholastica will usually open up registration April 1st. I've never been in other dorms so I can't tell you how they compare but they have a beautiful campus (Alum speaking from experience).

I received my confirmation card and "in training" shirt yesterday!! Now I guess the serious training starts.

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What're'ya shootin' fer, time-wise?

quote:<HR>Originally posted by Athletictrainer22:
Since this will be my first I am still trying to figure out a realistic goal. I kinda have one in mind but I will know better in a couple of weeks when I head out on some longer runs.

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For my first marathon, I ran all long runs just a little slower than planned marathon pace, and ran out to 25.2 miles in training. I figured that'd work. It did - but it was courting disaster as it took me all week to recover from those runs, and my chance of injury was probably fairly high. I tried to run all my daily runs at MP or faster, too - there's no way on God's green earth I could do that now - completely stupid. Might work for 30-40mpw. Maybe.

It's always hard to know what to shoot for, but if you can run, say, a 23 mile run with the first 5 miles at MP+90sec/mile, then middle miles in the MP+40-60 sec/mile, then the last 5 miles at MP... you are probably "good as gold." For your first one - I'd err on the conservative side. (well, to be honest, I have a record of going out too fast and dying - so let's just say I've been taught a lesson 9x out of 10 marathons)

So - good luck on your training!

I spectated last year, too. DNS due to injury.

I guess my biggest thought is to get to the big weekend without injury and then the next goal so far is to make it to the finish line. After that I think I am going to be happy with just about any time.

Oh, yeah, forgot about one thing. I was known as "cdunlap" around these parts back then, so in case you're scratching your head going "who the heck is techgoddess, never heard of her?", well, I'm cdunlap. Sorry!

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