HMSA 25K Race !
Weather prediction looks great for 25K on coming Sunday. Hopefully, it won't be too warm and humid like half marathon 2 weeks back. I ran this race last year and broke down mentally in the middle of race. After finishing two loops (around 10 miles) when David, Scott and Jay hendrickson opened a gap on me, I stopped in my tracks and started walking. I jogged/walked rest of the course and finished just under 2 hours. I didn't feel like running 30k last year and my training took a little dip and I didn't finish the marathon within my goal time.
This year is little different. I am training more diligently and am running more miles. I am already up around 50 miles/week. I hope I can reach 62-65 miles/week by mid December. I had a good long run on Saturday with Bob Brown and Mark Conran. We ran last 3 miles of our 18 miles run successively faster and finished at 7:15 min/mile pace. On Sunday, I wanted to do easy 12 miles but Dave helped me push the pace little bit. For 10 miles I was within 7:25-7:40 pace range but decided to push the pace in last two miles and got them in 6:58 and 6:43. 12th mile felt very good. I maintained good running form and was still able to run at a good pace.
Although, it is little premature but I want to run 25K on coming Sunday around 1:46. That is 6:50 min/mile pace. If I can get enough rest on Friday and Saturday, that should be doable. My goal would be to not go out too fast in first 5-6 miles and then try to reel in as many runners as I can in remaining 10 or so miles. One thing which bother me is that 25K seems awfully long race and it will definitely hurt during the race. I am also not sure if my right lung will bother me again as it did around mile 11 in half marathon. We shall see when we get to that.
I also signed up for 30K this year. This will mark me running all fall series HARRA races and if I can continue to run in spring, I can easily bag open runner of the season for BCRR.
This year is little different. I am training more diligently and am running more miles. I am already up around 50 miles/week. I hope I can reach 62-65 miles/week by mid December. I had a good long run on Saturday with Bob Brown and Mark Conran. We ran last 3 miles of our 18 miles run successively faster and finished at 7:15 min/mile pace. On Sunday, I wanted to do easy 12 miles but Dave helped me push the pace little bit. For 10 miles I was within 7:25-7:40 pace range but decided to push the pace in last two miles and got them in 6:58 and 6:43. 12th mile felt very good. I maintained good running form and was still able to run at a good pace.
Although, it is little premature but I want to run 25K on coming Sunday around 1:46. That is 6:50 min/mile pace. If I can get enough rest on Friday and Saturday, that should be doable. My goal would be to not go out too fast in first 5-6 miles and then try to reel in as many runners as I can in remaining 10 or so miles. One thing which bother me is that 25K seems awfully long race and it will definitely hurt during the race. I am also not sure if my right lung will bother me again as it did around mile 11 in half marathon. We shall see when we get to that.
I also signed up for 30K this year. This will mark me running all fall series HARRA races and if I can continue to run in spring, I can easily bag open runner of the season for BCRR.
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