Let The Taper Begin
I met up with Scott Grischow at 6 AM this morning in Memorial Park for our final long-run before Dallas. Our plan was to do 22 miles at a comfortable, conversational pace - no hammering.
And that's pretty much what we did. Scott had planted some bottles of water in River Oaks and we hit those at about 7 miles. We ended up going just a bit into downtown before his Garmin chimed 11 miles. We turned on a dime, I clicked the split, and we headed back to retrace our steps back to the park. We took a minor wrong turn somewhere along the way, which resulted in a total distance of 22.18 miles. We also stopped a couple of times for water on the way back in - once at Waugh and Allan Parkway, and one more time at our bottles in River Oaks. We covered the first 11 miles in 1:23:57, and the second 11 miles in 1:23:11, including stops. A well-managed, controlled run. Of course it helps that Scott is one heck of a runner - much better than I. And an interesting guy too. I found out during our run that Scott has climbed the highest peak in North America, South America, Africa, and I think Europe. Scott, were you surprised that I knew the names of those mountains, especially Australia and South America? Scott is heading to Australia in a month or so to conquer their highest mountain, and will do Everest next year. And I thought running marathons was a challange.
In hindsight I wish we'd have thrown in some marathon goal pace running but I just didn't think of it. And with the 10K yesterday I'm not sure how much of that we could have done anyway. Our pace worked out to 7:35 and it really felt almost effortless. I could have easily covered another 4 miles to get to 26.2, which would have worked out to a 3:18 marathon.
Now begins the taper. Very little running the next two weeks.
And that's pretty much what we did. Scott had planted some bottles of water in River Oaks and we hit those at about 7 miles. We ended up going just a bit into downtown before his Garmin chimed 11 miles. We turned on a dime, I clicked the split, and we headed back to retrace our steps back to the park. We took a minor wrong turn somewhere along the way, which resulted in a total distance of 22.18 miles. We also stopped a couple of times for water on the way back in - once at Waugh and Allan Parkway, and one more time at our bottles in River Oaks. We covered the first 11 miles in 1:23:57, and the second 11 miles in 1:23:11, including stops. A well-managed, controlled run. Of course it helps that Scott is one heck of a runner - much better than I. And an interesting guy too. I found out during our run that Scott has climbed the highest peak in North America, South America, Africa, and I think Europe. Scott, were you surprised that I knew the names of those mountains, especially Australia and South America? Scott is heading to Australia in a month or so to conquer their highest mountain, and will do Everest next year. And I thought running marathons was a challange.
In hindsight I wish we'd have thrown in some marathon goal pace running but I just didn't think of it. And with the 10K yesterday I'm not sure how much of that we could have done anyway. Our pace worked out to 7:35 and it really felt almost effortless. I could have easily covered another 4 miles to get to 26.2, which would have worked out to a 3:18 marathon.
Now begins the taper. Very little running the next two weeks.
posted by Lance Collins at 8:01 PM
3 Comments:
I predict a sub 3hour mary for you my friend.
Go get em tiger!
Thanks for the love June. I'm certainly going to give it my best shot.
it was great to see you--you were looking strong and you had to have been over half-way done.
best wishes!
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