Wednesday, January 16, 2013

The 2nd week in review.

Back to normal this week.  Kate is back to school.  All is well in the world.  Managed to get my 4 runs in this week including my third go at the Show Mura 1/2 marathon. My friend Nick has a great YouTube channel about his running life in Japan.  http://youtu.be/Ou9OQmOR8sU  I'm not as techy as he is so I'll let him do the hard work.

I finished the race in 2:16:xx which is down from last years of 1:59:xx.  I have my reasons though.  
My friends  Tawnee Prazak and Lucho  at http://www.EndurancePlanet.com/ gave me solid advice about how to run this race in this episode of ask the ultra runner  http://ow.ly/2ubmOy Basically they said don't race it. More specifically Lucho told me that with only a month since my marathon the Showa Mura event had the potential to hurt me more than help me and suggested I split it into thirds running each third at a progressively higher heart rate.  Zone2, Zone3, Zone4.  Great in theory but difficult in practice.  The Showa course has a lot of long hills and staying in the prescribed zones often meant walking.  
Show Mura on Training peaks


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