I went to the expo this am as tomorrow and this pm I will be at a work conference.
It was pouring rain, although I will not complain about the weather today. If this was Sunday, I would be really unhappy.
Anyway it was pretty uneventful to say the least. I have my number, my shirt and I bought a cute asics shirt just because (I dont know- retrospectively it was dumb- however I am turning all my running shirts into a quilt so I will need more?). Work got me a hat and a long sleeve zip up which was super nice of them. I am here with my poland spring huge bottle and a gatorade. bulk up baby!! I also got some signs at the expo for my friends! HA! I have friends flying in from FL and GA for the weekend. I'm just looking fwd to some fun :)
Last night I didnt take my prednisone but I slept 8 hours straight through so it was worth being a bit stuffed this am. I've also been wearing my contacts so my eyes dont panic Sunday when I try and put them in. I never wear contacts anymore and never for any length of time but I'll wear them today tomorrow and Saturday in preparation. Anyway I had a very realistic (melatonin induced) dream about breaking 4:53. My time in the marathon was 4:42. I would die of happiness I think. Anyway I picked up a 4:50 pace band at the expo.
Nothing else to report. Massage tonight. Conference from 730-4 tomorrow but with an hour plus for lunch. I might skip the lunch and go on a quick run using the Equinox at 63 and Lex as home base (the conference is in the 60s and 5th). So we'll see. Otherwise I will have run my last run my friends.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Funny story and a run
I work in an office in midtown in NYC... conservative finance... blah blah...all I've been thinking of is marathon.
Today I got in the elevator after lunch and held the door for some older guy. He said 'thank you' and asked 'how my day was going'. When I said 'fine', he asked me if our office was quiet today'. I said, 'yeah it is' and he said 'yea its just that time of year' and I said 'oh yeah marathon week' and at the same time he says......................'elections'. Awesome. I felt like such a tool. I have been talking marathon all day to anyone who will listen. I'm less nervous now. Feeling pretty confident. Not sure where that came from.
Tonight was a TNT run. We ran 3.8m in 39:16. Works for me but was too fast again. Was supposed to be 11 min marathon pace. I think that's my largest concern being able to run 11 min miles. Because really that's all I want and I will be happy. So I need to think SLOW JEN SLOW and not RUN JEN RUN :)
Was nice to get some nervous energy out though. Next concern- how in the hell to get downtown and what time I should go at with all the talk that theyre going to be strict this year!!!
Today I got in the elevator after lunch and held the door for some older guy. He said 'thank you' and asked 'how my day was going'. When I said 'fine', he asked me if our office was quiet today'. I said, 'yeah it is' and he said 'yea its just that time of year' and I said 'oh yeah marathon week' and at the same time he says......................'elections'. Awesome. I felt like such a tool. I have been talking marathon all day to anyone who will listen. I'm less nervous now. Feeling pretty confident. Not sure where that came from.
Tonight was a TNT run. We ran 3.8m in 39:16. Works for me but was too fast again. Was supposed to be 11 min marathon pace. I think that's my largest concern being able to run 11 min miles. Because really that's all I want and I will be happy. So I need to think SLOW JEN SLOW and not RUN JEN RUN :)
Was nice to get some nervous energy out though. Next concern- how in the hell to get downtown and what time I should go at with all the talk that theyre going to be strict this year!!!
Monday, November 1, 2010
If this is taper madness, no thank you please
I feel like I lost my head. All of the sudden I can't concentrate. About 2 minutes passes after each concentrated task before I need to flip to the next one.
Caffeine cutback begins asap. Obviously is not helping.
I made a list of what needs to get done and its hardly anything. I'm just anxious and no workouts are not helping me.
UGH
Caffeine cutback begins asap. Obviously is not helping.
I made a list of what needs to get done and its hardly anything. I'm just anxious and no workouts are not helping me.
UGH
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Poland Sping 5m Kick Off Run
I had been told that the race course is notoriously crowded and that it was for the first mile at least. I had in the back of my head that I wanted to PR and that it wouldnt be too difiicult given that I've only run 2 5m races previously as follows:
-Fathers Day 5m- 52:48 and I pushed a bit
-Hope and Possibility 5m- 55:48 that's more of my normal pace
Both races were this summer, 6/20/10 and 6/27/10 so the weather was much much different than today which was sunny and 54 degrees.
Regardless, I was psyched with my final time. 49:01. YAAAAHOOOOOO!!!! A PR by 3 min 47 seconds unofficially. The course was a clockwise loops starting right before the NYCM finish line.
Spilits:
10:30
9:57
9:53
9:29
9:11
When I started and saw 10:30 given the west side hills I figured 'Hey! Maybe I'll break the 52:48 I set in the summer, that would be nice'... When I hit the second split right by the 102 transverse I was like, Huh sounds great. I did mess up the splits a bit so m1 and m2 were more like 10:23 and 10:04 but whatever. I decided then I wanted to pick it up a bit and saw the 9:53 for m3 and decided that I wanted to break 50 min. 49:01 is a dream!!! I think my ultimate 5m goal is going to be 45min but we'll get there with training etc. 2011 is the year of training runs. I am going to set 4m, 5m 10k goals and we'll hopefully get to 9 min pace for the 10k, 8:45 pace for the 5m and 8:30 pace for the 4m.
YAY SUNDAY! Here I come NYCM!
-Fathers Day 5m- 52:48 and I pushed a bit
-Hope and Possibility 5m- 55:48 that's more of my normal pace
Both races were this summer, 6/20/10 and 6/27/10 so the weather was much much different than today which was sunny and 54 degrees.
Regardless, I was psyched with my final time. 49:01. YAAAAHOOOOOO!!!! A PR by 3 min 47 seconds unofficially. The course was a clockwise loops starting right before the NYCM finish line.
Spilits:
10:30
9:57
9:53
9:29
9:11
When I started and saw 10:30 given the west side hills I figured 'Hey! Maybe I'll break the 52:48 I set in the summer, that would be nice'... When I hit the second split right by the 102 transverse I was like, Huh sounds great. I did mess up the splits a bit so m1 and m2 were more like 10:23 and 10:04 but whatever. I decided then I wanted to pick it up a bit and saw the 9:53 for m3 and decided that I wanted to break 50 min. 49:01 is a dream!!! I think my ultimate 5m goal is going to be 45min but we'll get there with training etc. 2011 is the year of training runs. I am going to set 4m, 5m 10k goals and we'll hopefully get to 9 min pace for the 10k, 8:45 pace for the 5m and 8:30 pace for the 4m.
YAY SUNDAY! Here I come NYCM!
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