Waverly Caps Off Weekend With 10.3 Miles!
The schedule said 9 miles. Therefore, our target running time was 2:15 or 15 minutes per mile. (I don't want to set a target for Waverly any faster than that given that this is the first time her legs are handling this distance.)
Waverly and I ventured out at approximately 6:40 p.m. and started on our normal 2.1-mile loop course but added two stretches to it that would take it close to four (4) miles - almost exactly the same distance that Lance Collins and I had run Thursday night.
After we were done, I got in the truck and measured it to be 4.1 miles! Therefore, two (2) 4.1-mile loops and one (1) 2.1-mile loop equals a whopping 10.3 miles! (Actually, I thought that the 4-mile loops were going to be under and that the additional 2.1 would put us a shade over - not 1.3!)
Waverly ran/jogged about 90% of the first loop, 80% of the second loop and about 50% of the last loop. Not shabby at all! She did great! Here are what the time splits looked like:
Loop 1 (4.1 miles) -- 57:11.61 -- 13:57/mile (1:45.78 break to take on fluids)
Loop 2 (4.1 miles) -- 58:53.95 -- 14:22/mile (1:59.66 break)
Loop 3 (2.1 miles) -- 30:29.15 -- 14:31/mile
Total (10.3 miles) -- 2:26:34.71 -- 14:14/mile
The only drawback is that Waverly's right ankle has been bothering her of late and that flared up before the last loop. She put some ice (actually some nice packets that Steve Schroeder gave me) on it once she got back inside.
Earlier on Saturday, I completed a rainy Run The Woodlands 5K #142 in 29:21.51 while Waverly did so in 40:48 - her 3rd best of 12 career 5Ks. (She's four RTWs away from being the youngest member of the event's 10-race club.) Doing so allowed the two of us to be part of 43 career runners to do the Thanksgiving Day 5-Miler in The Woodlands and Run The Woodlands 5K on the same weekend. My time splits were as follows:
Mile 1 -- 8:55.83
Mile 2 -- 9:37.77 (18:33.60)
Mile 3 -- 9:53.36 (28:26.96)
Last .1 -- 54.55
Final -- 29:21.51 (9:28/mile)
Actually though, this was one race that I could have done better.
I was a little gassed after a fast first mile. When I hit the mile 1 marker (blue dot!), I needed to take a quick walk. Debbie Tripp, who I frequently run close to or with in these races, passed me at the mile 1 marker and she knew that we both nailed a fast first mile.
I immediately came back and passed her, but she held tough. We stayed with each other like Tergat-Ramaala through the 1.8-mile spot where I took a couple of steps advantage, but she refused to yield. Even though I was on a close to PR pace, there was a twinge of humidity in the air, mixed with the rain, that mentally influenced me to simply back off at the mile 2 marker. I took another walk break and she opened up what proved to be a 17-second advantage at the finish (29:04 to 29:21). I really missed an opportunity to attempt some race tactics for over a mile and I never had the energy to kick to try and close the gap as Debbie usually starts slower and finishes off fairly solid.
Unfortunately, I think that I did this on Thursday at the mile 3-mark of the Run Thru The Woods 5M when I registered a 9:21/mile pace. To be honest, I think I was spoiled with the weather of the weekend before when I posted two really good races in the 10K in Missouri City and the half marathon in Austin.
In closing, congratulations to Vera Balic of the Bay Area Running Club, a good friend of a good friend of mine, Shelley Stephenson, who registered a 1:41:17 half marathon earlier today in the Harris Direct Seattle Half Marathon. Balic, who bypassed the Chicago Marathon earlier last month because she didn't feel as if she could do it as well as she wanted given her training, ran the half today with incredible consistency -- 7:45/mile in the front 10K and 7:43/mile in the back 6.9 miles, according to the event's web site.
Waverly and I ventured out at approximately 6:40 p.m. and started on our normal 2.1-mile loop course but added two stretches to it that would take it close to four (4) miles - almost exactly the same distance that Lance Collins and I had run Thursday night.
After we were done, I got in the truck and measured it to be 4.1 miles! Therefore, two (2) 4.1-mile loops and one (1) 2.1-mile loop equals a whopping 10.3 miles! (Actually, I thought that the 4-mile loops were going to be under and that the additional 2.1 would put us a shade over - not 1.3!)
Waverly ran/jogged about 90% of the first loop, 80% of the second loop and about 50% of the last loop. Not shabby at all! She did great! Here are what the time splits looked like:
Loop 1 (4.1 miles) -- 57:11.61 -- 13:57/mile (1:45.78 break to take on fluids)
Loop 2 (4.1 miles) -- 58:53.95 -- 14:22/mile (1:59.66 break)
Loop 3 (2.1 miles) -- 30:29.15 -- 14:31/mile
Total (10.3 miles) -- 2:26:34.71 -- 14:14/mile
The only drawback is that Waverly's right ankle has been bothering her of late and that flared up before the last loop. She put some ice (actually some nice packets that Steve Schroeder gave me) on it once she got back inside.
Earlier on Saturday, I completed a rainy Run The Woodlands 5K #142 in 29:21.51 while Waverly did so in 40:48 - her 3rd best of 12 career 5Ks. (She's four RTWs away from being the youngest member of the event's 10-race club.) Doing so allowed the two of us to be part of 43 career runners to do the Thanksgiving Day 5-Miler in The Woodlands and Run The Woodlands 5K on the same weekend. My time splits were as follows:
Mile 1 -- 8:55.83
Mile 2 -- 9:37.77 (18:33.60)
Mile 3 -- 9:53.36 (28:26.96)
Last .1 -- 54.55
Final -- 29:21.51 (9:28/mile)
Actually though, this was one race that I could have done better.
I was a little gassed after a fast first mile. When I hit the mile 1 marker (blue dot!), I needed to take a quick walk. Debbie Tripp, who I frequently run close to or with in these races, passed me at the mile 1 marker and she knew that we both nailed a fast first mile.
I immediately came back and passed her, but she held tough. We stayed with each other like Tergat-Ramaala through the 1.8-mile spot where I took a couple of steps advantage, but she refused to yield. Even though I was on a close to PR pace, there was a twinge of humidity in the air, mixed with the rain, that mentally influenced me to simply back off at the mile 2 marker. I took another walk break and she opened up what proved to be a 17-second advantage at the finish (29:04 to 29:21). I really missed an opportunity to attempt some race tactics for over a mile and I never had the energy to kick to try and close the gap as Debbie usually starts slower and finishes off fairly solid.
Unfortunately, I think that I did this on Thursday at the mile 3-mark of the Run Thru The Woods 5M when I registered a 9:21/mile pace. To be honest, I think I was spoiled with the weather of the weekend before when I posted two really good races in the 10K in Missouri City and the half marathon in Austin.
In closing, congratulations to Vera Balic of the Bay Area Running Club, a good friend of a good friend of mine, Shelley Stephenson, who registered a 1:41:17 half marathon earlier today in the Harris Direct Seattle Half Marathon. Balic, who bypassed the Chicago Marathon earlier last month because she didn't feel as if she could do it as well as she wanted given her training, ran the half today with incredible consistency -- 7:45/mile in the front 10K and 7:43/mile in the back 6.9 miles, according to the event's web site.
posted by WalkSports.com | 10:58 PM
1 Comments:
I can't tell you how heartening it is to read about marathoners who are as slow as I am and not worrying about it! Though I've gotten a little faster since my first marathon, I have yet to tackle a second and fear that if I don't get some awesome training in this winter, Nashville will be a very VERY slow marathon. I like reading about back-of-the-pack runners like myself.
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