quote:<HR>Originally posted by webfoot:
leitnerj wrote:
"I've got an
Olympic tri coming up next weekend, a half ironman a couple
weeks later, grandma's marathon the next week, and the vermont
100 miler a month later, so I don't have time to recover from
beating myself into the ground"
Geez LJ, you got stop being such a slacker.... 
For the record, I don't just believe in monitoring just pace, thats why I waer a HR monitor. But it's not just black and white, you can't just focus on one thing. One must be monitored one aspect in the context of the other. Your goal of breaking 3:15 (a 7:27 pace) and going pout at 6:40 is lost on me. I can't race that way. But hey, your happy so its all good.
So tell me, how does one get lost on a marathon course? Did a pack of you guys go off together?
Anyhoo, have a great weekend.
Best regards,
Greg<HR>
Well, once again, if you go by level of effort, and not by pace,
it's irrelevant whether I'm running 6:40 or 7:50. My average heart
rate was a measly 154 over the first mile. There's certainly no
reason for it to be lower effort than that and there's no time to
waste in a marathon! It's totally aerobic, and certainly nothing
to pay for later. The early burnouts I've experienced all had to
do with running at too high of a level of effort early in the race,
sometimes just by taking the hills too hard and getting the
heart rate way up in the beginning. For these instances, I've
paid big penalties, but we're talking about a slowdown of 3, 4,
or 5 minutes per mile over the last 6-8 miles. So, let's say
there sizable hills at the beginning of the race, whether they
be up or down. Are you suggesting that you should still be
watching your pace and making sure that it's not too fast
or too slow (assuming you're wearing a HR monitor) and using
that to guide what you're doing? Even with the
extra distance my 1 mile race time (5:36) projects out quite
well to my marathon pace time, so I couldn't have been far
from my ultimate potential. If I were to use the time I crossed
26.2 miles (just over 3:10), then I actually beat the pace
calculator. Perhaps my mile time is a bit faster than my
last mile race from a couple of years ago, but I haven't done
a single lick of speedwork since then, so it would be hard
to conceive of any substantial improvement.
Now, it's really not hard at all to miss a turn on a marathon
course if there is no marking on the ground (at least that I
was able to see) and no marshall standing there to tell you
which way to go. In this case, there was about a 3 mile
loop that was added which started just after passing a
large school campus. When going out, we went CCW around
the campus and when coming back, I just assumed we would
return the way we came. However, it turned out that on the
return, we were supposed to continue the CCW path (around
the other side of the campus). Oh well.
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