OK....I was suppose to run 12 miles at MP. With that said, lets decided if I accomplished my task. If I want to run a 3:50 marathon I need to be around a 8:45 per mile. If I look at that, then none of my miles were at MP. However, here is the debate; I did run this training run at "someone's" MP, therefore can I say I accomplished my task. My training schedule never specified "Who's" marathon pace I must run.
If didn't feel as strong as I would have liked on the run. I did find some new GU type stuff that I really like and I was able to eat the whole package throughout the run...YEA for me. When I finished I didn't feel completly depleated like before. However, I still couldn't get my breathing down and couldn't push the pace like would have liked. This run, with standards from past years, was quite slow. I wish I could figure out what is going on. | 