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March 2012
21-03-2012, 07:34 PM,
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RE: March 2012
Two laps round the lagoon tonight, at tempo pace. A shade under 8 miles in 64 mins. Managed a negative split, although the first mile was a warmup so that should be expected. The promenade was lightly filled with people of all ages and races taking the evening air. I guess the temperature was around 25C; in direct sunshine that would be unpleasant for running, but in the dark with a gentle breeze it's pretty great. Spent quite a while pondering how much manpower it took to lay the 4 miles by 10 feet of immaculately tesselated octagonal tiles underfoot.

Sorry, didn't bring a camera!

Not exactly nervous about the marathon... I'm really looking forward to it, but I know that my time target is going to make it hellish, and if I was a betting man I wouldn't back myself to achieve it. I'm now convinced that to plan for a negative split is to plan to fail. When Sweder, aka The Machine, aka The Animal, says that negative splitting a HALF marathon was really tough, I don't think it's the way to go. So I will be carefully pacing myself for a gradual and hopefully graceful decline in pace, as usual. But which also means I have to run the first half at a rather startling 8:27 pace. I'm going to be absolutely spent by mile 20. But I will have a million people cheering me on. So I'm looking forward to seeing how that turns out. Such is the mental illness of the long distance runner.
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March 2012 - by marathondan - 06-03-2012, 12:45 PM
RE: March 2012 - by Sweder - 06-03-2012, 06:31 PM
RE: March 2012 - by marathondan - 06-03-2012, 08:37 PM
RE: March 2012 - by marathondan - 12-03-2012, 09:23 PM
RE: March 2012 - by Sweder - 14-03-2012, 01:28 PM
RE: March 2012 - by marathondan - 15-03-2012, 01:23 PM
RE: March 2012 - by glaconman - 15-03-2012, 02:32 PM
RE: March 2012 - by Sweder - 17-03-2012, 10:40 AM
RE: March 2012 - by marathondan - 19-03-2012, 07:56 PM
RE: March 2012 - by Bierzo Baggie - 19-03-2012, 10:01 PM
RE: March 2012 - by marathondan - 21-03-2012, 07:34 PM
RE: March 2012 - by Sweder - 22-03-2012, 10:04 PM
RE: March 2012 - by marathondan - 27-03-2012, 10:12 AM
RE: March 2012 - by El Gordo - 27-03-2012, 07:11 PM
RE: March 2012 - by marathondan - 28-03-2012, 06:19 AM
RE: March 2012 - by glaconman - 28-03-2012, 03:17 PM
RE: March 2012 - by marathondan - 28-03-2012, 09:42 PM
RE: March 2012 - by El Gordo - 28-03-2012, 05:46 PM
RE: March 2012 - by marathondan - 28-03-2012, 08:29 PM
RE: March 2012 - by El Gordo - 28-03-2012, 10:18 PM
RE: March 2012 - by marathondan - 28-03-2012, 10:44 PM
RE: March 2012 - by El Gordo - 28-03-2012, 11:18 PM
RE: March 2012 - by marathondan - 29-03-2012, 07:23 AM

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