Not sure what to think about this run – on one hand it was a half marathon distance faster than my PR but on the other I kept catching myself cheating by holding onto the railing of the treadmill. So while a strong push I don’t think it truly accurately reflects my current speed level. That being said though it was definitely good for the mental game so that I can go into a my last 50 mile week (last tough week) before starting to taper for the Goofy Challenge in January.
I was doing some interval training as part of the run using 6.6 mph as my default slow speed and I always recovered quickly and felt like I could go forever at that speed. This tells me I do have a solid shot at beating my PR for the full during the full marathon portion of the Goofy Challenge. My PR is 4:15:01 and if I can get the first half done in around 1:55 I should have lots of energy left in the tank to almost coast out the last 2:20 to tie my PR. So new PR should happen – but I still need to keep working at it – can’t get complacent now. Setting a new PR is only part of the goal for the full though – I would like to break under 4 hours (preferably with authority) which means I probably want my first half closer to 1:50 if I can do it without killing my legs and then have 2 hours or so to finish up the second half. Now if I could negative split that would be awesome but I have never pulled that off in a race yet so we will just have to see what happens there.
OK – keep pushing! I got this.
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