Back on the horse
So I meant to run at my projected Philadelphia pace for a mile, then take a little off, then run another mile at pace, then a little off, then a couple more miles at race pace. That did not happen, instead this happened! 8:35/mi (5:22/km) gets me to a 3:45:00 marathon. I just averaged 7:58/mi (4:57/km). That’s a 3:28 marathon. Granted, I only averaged it over 6.75 miles (10.8 km) but still, that’s nothing to sneeze at. I really think, with the right training plan, it really is just my head that’s holding me back at this point. I guess the mantra for training is going to be something as trite and played out as “believe to achieve”. Perhaps I need to be more “All-ular” And now I feel a song coming on:
I did change my playlist up, I removed a band that I needed to get rid of. Unfortunately, I can’t support them anymore due to personal differences. I’m not going to get into that anymore. I think that helped too, because I didn’t hear their music so I didn’t think about how they, well one member, just kind of didn’t bother with something hugely important, for the second time in his life. I think I run races better without music, recent results do bear that out to be true. But training, I need something. Why get bogged down by music that isn’t making you feel good?
Other than that, while I feel like I was fast, and I feel good about that, and I should, let’s remember, to be really fast, to qualify for Boston, I would have to run 7:04/mi (4:24/km) so I still have to take almost a minute off every mile I run, over half a minute off each kilometer! Even if I do end up running that fast one day though, I have no plans on ever running Boston. I don’t care, I really dislike the city itself that much. I don’t want to do something, just because everyone else wants to do it. It’s not a badge of honor, it’s not exciting to me. I’m going back to Philly and running in a big crowd to hang out with my friend. I will run in big marathons if I need to, but I don’t like it. I have no need to run Boston, I have nothing to prove, and so I won’t do it. But still, the chances of taking almost 2 minutes per mile off my current marathon PR is a huge task, and I doubt it would ever happen anyway. So it really doesn’t matter anyway, but if something happened where I were to find that speed, I just wouldn’t do it. Just my two cents on the whole thing. In the meantime, have fun, keep running and remember, if Gil can run, then so can you!
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