And so we are brought to the present tie of the blog and right up to the Boston Marathon weekend. I did a little 6 mile workout on Wednesday and it felt really good. I was in an unfamiliar area in Minneapolis and I found a 1.8ish mile loop that I ran 3 times. I was not really planning on running it that fast but I felt good and gradually started picking up as I went on. I remember feeling really good and ran the last mile in 5:30ish. This pretty much served no purpose at all but I felt like getting the run done. So then I got to Boston, couple of runs and took the day before off. Then race day. Here is to no suspense to find out what I ran.
2:42:46
It felt good and it is not an easy course at all. Here is how the race breaks down to what I can remember. First 4 miles are pretty much all downhill with a hill at the end. Then it was pretty much rolling for the next 7-8 miles and then at 12ish there was a big hill that led up Wellesley College. This was a great little area with TONS of women screaming like crazy. I would have to say that this was probably one of the fastest miles that the male competitors ran. Great motivation. But after this there is not a lot of fun left in the course except for the end of the race that I can really remember. I remember hitting the hills at 16 miles and feeling really good. I dropped a large group that I was with and I think only 3 or 4 people passed me by the end of the race. So being from northern MN and it being flatter than death I hit the hills pretty well. By far the hardest part of the race started to be the downhill sections. My quads were crazy burning by the end of the race and the downhills hurt so bad. You know that it is not good when you desire uphill sections. I hit the wall and can honestly say that I gave it everything I had that day. I averaged 6:08ish pace for the first 22 miles and then the last 4 were 6:30ish pace. I was pretty much completely depleted of all energy. But I was able to keep off this guy that I had been running with since mile 7. Beat him by less than 10 seconds. Overall pretty good day.
Mile splits are from the garmin and the kilometer ones are from the race results.
1 mile: 6:06
2 mile: 6:09 - 12:15
3 mile: 6:09 - 18:24
5k: 19:01
4 mile: 6:06 - 24:31
5 mile: 6:13 - 30:45
6 mile: 6:09 - 36:54
10k: 38:21
7 mile: 6:08 - 43:02
8 mile: 6:12 - 49:15
9 mile: 6:09 - 55:24
15k: 57:36
10 mile: 6:07 - 1:01:32
11 mile: 6:10 - 1:07:43
12 mile: 6:01 - 1:13:44
20k: 1:16:44
13 mile: 6:06 - 1:19:50
Half Marathon: 1:20:52
14 mile: 6:08 - 1:25:58
15 mile: 6:08 - 1:32:06
25k: 1:35:44
16 mile: 5:53 - 1:38:00
17 mile: 6:11 - 1:44:12
18 mile: 6:09 - 1:50:22
30k: 1:54:48
19 mile: 6:00 - 1:56:22
20 mile: 6:12 - 2:02:35
21 mile: 6:27 - 2:09:03
35k: 2:14:12
40k: 2:34:19
22 to end: 33:50 - 2:42:46
So as I said you can see that the times started to slow from average at the 21st mile and on. So that is the last 6 miles of the race. It hurt and lack of running showed to be the downfall of me though I still only ran 4:30 slower than I did in Kansas when I was in WAY better shape. So god to know that if I really try hard I cold probably put something pretty good together. We shall see what happens in the future.
So I was pretty jacked after the race and this just continued on through the end of the month.
May: I was pretty rock solid for all of May. I did not do any workouts at all that I can remember but I did do the Fargo Marathon on the 22nd. That was by far the best race that I have run in a long time. 1:13:23. Not that fast for the most part but damn was I jacked after I crossed the line. For the most part I really only had about 2 months of training with a marathon in the middle of it. And since my PR is only 1:12:41. For being 42 seconds away from a PR in very wet conditions also really made me happy. I was really looking forward to the summer of training and the next year to see what it was going to bring but that is a story for after the Fargo splits...
I started out slow and then started to hammer at the end and the splits show
1 mile: 5:44
2 mile: 5:47 - 11:31
3 mile: 5:42 - 17:14
4 mile: 5:41 - 22:55
5 mile: 5:31 - 28:27
6 mile: 5:40 - 34:07
10k: 35:27
7 mile: 5:32 - 39:39
8 mile: 5:33 - 45:13
9 mile: 5:25 - 50:39
10 mile: 5:31 - 56:11
11 mile: 5:22 - 1:01:34
12 mile: 5:17 - 1:06:51
13 mile: 5:19 - 1:12:11
end: 1:13:23
So as you can see this was a pretty good day. I was real happy. Now we fast forward one in time to the worst part of my running career. The day was Saturday the 29th of May 2010. In a freak volleyball accident I dislocated my knee cap and that pretty much put an end to life as a runner as I knew it. I was in super good shape and was looking at running a race in a couple weeks in Illinois but that obviously never happened. I took ALL of June and most of July off. I ran a couple days and it felt OK but I have discovered other things since all the doctors and what not have looked at it. I was told by a friend that I have floating cartilage in my knee and that has to be removed with surgery and I just really do not have the funds for that right now. So I am just trying to get by with what I have right now. I know I should probably just get the stupid thing taken care of but it is really a money thing right now more than anything. I have been running again but not at any real quality. I am hoping that I will be able to just giv'r and see what happens with it. If I need to I will get surgery in the early part of next year and see what happens from there.
As for upcoming races...I have no big ones planned at the moment. I moved to BUrlington, VT in the middle of August and am loving it but I need to get into a steady running plan and get back int racing shape. I ran a 5 miler last weekend and BLEW up during that. I have been battling some hip favoring problems as well but decided to run anyways. I ran 29:24 for 5 MILES!!! I have not run that slow since I have no idea when. I almost ran that fast for 5 miles of my marathon last fall. This is not acceptable and I will get back into running shape very soon. I will be running a cross country race on the 22nd of October. And I will run well at it. And by well I better be under 28 or I am going to be PISSED! I got faith that I can get down to that range in a month so now it is time to go for a run and quite complaining.
Thanks all for reading and hopefully I can update more frequently again.
Run for Him,
Richie
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