There should be a fine assessed here.

Rich,

I don't know why but I somehow had it in my mind that Covered Bridges was later in the year. This will give you a good benchmark as to where you stand in relation to past couple years. That's a very nice race if I recall.

On the long runs I'd just keep doing what you have been if it seems to be working and you feel good. You say you are "only" doing 16 milers and will do "just" 2 more before your race? I hope that's enough since that's as far as I've been going--only three 16's this year. The rest have been in 12-14 range with mostly 12's. Tomorrow I'll be running my first HM since last fall.

That's good news Euph. We'll be seeing more of you here.

3.2 in 29 today, spectacular day here. Just 3.3 tomorrow gives me 25, then I move up to 30, and I am very ready for it. Spareribs

Rich,

I got good result, with fast finishing, not in my max length long runs in which I plod relatively slow but of medium long runs. The idea was for me, not to leave my race performance in the training field. Fast finishing pace was much slower than race pace, and I only did 2 runs in the last 2 1/2 weeks.

220 miles in April. Good training to all.

Nice month Oguz.

3.3 in 29:05, for 8:49 pace. Ten miler tomorrow to kick off my first 30-mile week. Spareribs

Saturday,

I was supposed to run long tomorrow , but with a weather forecast that includes an inch of rain, I decided to get that run in today. Weather's drizzle and 42 degrees, but I got my shorts and unshaven legs out the door and headed down the highway.

I'm thinking an 8:20 pace in the half marathon in June is a realistic goal, so set out to warm up for 3, run 8:20's for the next 10, then cool for 3 to give me 16 total. First 3 were 8:30's, the next 10 were in 1:23:26 (8:20.6 pace) and the last 3 were 9:40's. Perfect.

A solid run for this old buzzard, I'm happy.

Yesterday's race was solid, but not quite what I would hope for from a goal race. I thought maybe that 6:30's would feel relatively easy after the string of shorter races at a quicker pace, but it didn't turn out that way. I ended up running a slightly negative split to finish in 1:27:27, but it was almost a minute slower than what I ran this distance last October. Splits were 6:35, 6:40, 6:42, 6:44, 6:40, 6:45, 6:38, 6:34, 6:39, 6:44, 6:39, 6:44, 6:43 and :40 for the last .11. At the half way turn around I counted approximately 28 runners ahead of me and whittled it down to 14 by the finish. This was out of more than 1500 finishers, so in that regard I had a good race. Otherwise it wasn't quite as good as some others I've had in past couple months. It's been fun while it lasted, but with 9 races in last 10 weekends I think I've about played out the string.